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Definition of lenitive:
- A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain or protecting from the action of irritants.
- A mild purgative; a laxative.
- Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
- That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative.
Synonyms:
mitigative, alleviatory, mitigatory, moderating, palliative, alleviative.
Usage examples:
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With their pulp, figs, tamarinds, and senna, the officinal " lenitive electuary" is made; and apothecaries prepare a medicinal tincture from the fresh flower- buds of the Blackthorn.
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Momentarily at times when, after reading certain books, his disgust for everyday life was accentuated, he longed for lenitive hours in a cloister, where the monotonous chant of prayers in an incense- laden atmosphere would bring on a somnolence, a dreamy rapture of mystical ideas.
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The writer showed conclusively that such and such an unguent or soap often produced an effect exactly opposite to that intended, and the ointment, or the soap, acted as a tonic upon a skin that required a lenitive treatment, or vice versa.