lenitif
Old French edit
Adjective edit
lenitif m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lenitive)
- (medicine) calming; soothing
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 203 of this essay:
- s’il prent laxatif il doit estre foible et lenitif
- if he takes a laxative, it must be weak and soothing