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lenified

lenified is the simple past and past participle of lenify.

Meaning of lenify

Verb

lenify (third-person singular simple present lenifies, present participle lenifying, simple past and past participle lenified)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To assuage or mitigate; to soften (fever/pain/effects etc.).
    • And it is used for squinancies and inflammations in the throat ; whereby it seemeth to have a mollifying and lenifying virtue1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...

Questions about lenified

What is lenified the simple past and past participle of?
Lenified is the simple past and past participle of lenify.

Words near lenified in the dictionary

  1. lenient
  2. leniently
  3. lenientness
  4. lenients
  5. Lenienza
  6. lenified
  7. lenifies
  8. lenify
  9. lenifying
  10. Lenihan
  11. Lenihans

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