leniture
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lenio, lenire, lenivi, lenitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
mitigate, moderate; alleviate, allay, assuage, ease, calm, placate, appease;; mollify; explain away, gloss over; beguile, pass pleasantly; abate;
voc. sg. fut. act. part. - Entry →lenio, lenire, lenivi(ii), lenitus:
Verb · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Whitaker
mitigate, moderate; alleviate, allay, assuage, ease, calm, placate, appease;; mollify; explain away, gloss over; beguile, pass pleasantly; abate; (Kludge);
voc. sg. fut. act. part.
Examples
- L
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quaere quem vincas'. * * * His sermonibus et his similibus lenitur illa vis ulceris, quam opto mehercules mitigari..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...animi vitia ponuntur: quidquid infixum et ingenitum est lenitur arte, non vincitur. Quibusdam etiam constantissimis in conspectu populi..." - G
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...dolum caperetur. Quae ubi tardius procedunt neque lenitur animus ferox, statuit quovis modo inceptum perficere. Primo conventu, quem..."
