LENITIVE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Lenitive

... the murmuring main! Belov'd marine retreat! I oft recall The night, I first repos'd within thy wall: A night devoted, at a friend's desire, To touch the chords of a sepulchral lyre! Touch'd not in vain!—The faithful tribute brought To cureless grief the lenitive, she sought; And Lushington, thro' tearful anguish, smil'd On truth's memorial of her darling child. Little I thought, when eager to bestow The heart's pure offering on parental woe, How soon my filial pride, and friend most dear, Would claim ...

— Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects - Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular - Friends of the Author • William Hayley

... the dermis and epidermis. The writer showed conclusively that such and such an unguent or soap often produced an effect exactly opposite to that intended, and the ointment, or the soap, acted as a tonic upon a skin that required a lenitive ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I • Various