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lenitivus

lenitivus [ML] 1 that causes smoothness. Ps.-Gros. Summa 525 (v. asperativus); virtus sua munera dat informativa. / ‥ / ossa quedam perforat, lenit lenitiva, / viget vis assimilans cum asperativa Garl. Epith. V Summa 27. 2 that comforts or consoles. ut legem Christi doceat arguendo instanter malos secundum legem correpcionis fraterne et consolando bonos secundum regulas sapiencie ~e Wycl. Civ. Dom. I 139; post aspera affluunt linitiva [l. lenitiva] Thorne 2150. 3 (med.) that assuages or alleviates, (as sb. n.) medicament that soothes. nulla fiat purgatio, sed solis mollificativis et ~is est insistendum Gilb. IV 183v. 1; item [cibaria unctuosa] membrorum spiritalium sunt ~a ut patet in butyro Bart. Angl. XIX 43 p. 1174; sicut imperitus medicus humanis artubus rodentia pro ~is ‥ unguenta perfundit Netter DAF II 32. 1.

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