leniate

From Latin lēniō — to soften, to soothe.

leniate (third-person singular simple present leniates, present participle leniating, simple past and past participle leniated)

1. (obsolete) To soothe.
   • 1642, anonymous, "The Strangling and Death of the Great Turk, and his two Sons", published in 1745 in The Harleian Miscellany (Volume 4), page 32

     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.

   • 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)

     […] ſuch vehehement [sic] vexations and torments in Colicall dolours, which might be leniated by ſeverall Medicaments […]

   • 1792, D[avid] Lloyd, The Voyage of Life: A Poem, page 169

     The conſciouſneſs of ſelf-ſecurity
     Prevails o'er every feeling in the breaſt,
     And leniates all our grief. […]

• ateline, lenaite, lineate, nealite

leniate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of lenire

• lineate