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lenifies

lenifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 lenifies

What is lenifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lenifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lenify.

Words near lenifies in the dictionary

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

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