"leniate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: leniates [present, singular, third-person], leniating [participle, present], leniated [participle, past], leniated [past]
Etymology: From Latin lēniō — to soften, to soothe. Head templates: {{en-verb}} leniate (third-person singular simple present leniates, present participle leniating, simple past and past participle leniated)
  1. (obsolete) To soothe. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-leniate-en-verb-0jaRXDW- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin lēniō — to soften, to soothe.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leniates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leniating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leniated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leniated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1642, anonymous author, “The Strangling and Death of the Great Turk, and his two Sons”, in The Harleian Miscellany, volume 4, published 1745, page 32:",
          "text": "Sometimes an offender is beheaded, sometimes thrown off a rock; […] yet, in these cases, as the Emperor's fury is leniated, they many times escape; but, when the Mutes come in place, all are displaced, against whom their commission is enlarged.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the whole Body of Phyſick : Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals: The manner of Compounding Medicaments, and the way to adminiſter them, page 113 (originally published in French as \"Dispensatorivm Medicvm \" by Jean de Renou, 1609)",
          "text": "[…] ſuch vehehement [sic] vexations and torments in Colicall dolours, which might be leniated by ſeverall Medicaments […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1792, D[avid] Lloyd, The Voyage of Life: A Poem, page 169:",
          "text": "The conſciouſneſs of ſelf-ſecurity\n Prevails o'er every feeling in the breaſt,\n And leniates all our grief. […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To soothe."
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      "id": "en-leniate-en-verb-0jaRXDW-",
      "links": [
        [
          "soothe",
          "soothe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To soothe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "leniate"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From Latin lēniō — to soften, to soothe.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leniates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leniating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leniated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leniated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1642, anonymous author, “The Strangling and Death of the Great Turk, and his two Sons”, in The Harleian Miscellany, volume 4, published 1745, page 32:",
          "text": "Sometimes an offender is beheaded, sometimes thrown off a rock; […] yet, in these cases, as the Emperor's fury is leniated, they many times escape; but, when the Mutes come in place, all are displaced, against whom their commission is enlarged.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the whole Body of Phyſick : Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals: The manner of Compounding Medicaments, and the way to adminiſter them, page 113 (originally published in French as \"Dispensatorivm Medicvm \" by Jean de Renou, 1609)",
          "text": "[…] ſuch vehehement [sic] vexations and torments in Colicall dolours, which might be leniated by ſeverall Medicaments […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1792, D[avid] Lloyd, The Voyage of Life: A Poem, page 169:",
          "text": "The conſciouſneſs of ſelf-ſecurity\n Prevails o'er every feeling in the breaſt,\n And leniates all our grief. […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To soothe."
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      "links": [
        [
          "soothe",
          "soothe"
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        "(obsolete) To soothe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "leniate"
}

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