• ALLAY

1. v. lenire (the proper word; e.g., a disorder, pain, hate, wrath, sorrow, etc.): mitigare, mitiorem facere (e.g., pain, a fever, melancholy, etc.): levare (to lighten: also elevare aegritudinem, sollicitudinem, etc.). To allay thirst, sitim reprimere, sedare; sitim re-, ex-stinguere, depellere (of entirely quenching it).

2. s. PROP., no Latin word to denote it as thing. Vid: ADULTERATION. ImPROP., mitigatio: levatio: allevatio (alleviation): mixtio, permixtio (mixing; as action and thing): mixtura (mixture; as manner and thing): adulteratio (adulteration): dopravatio (deterioration produced by the admixture of something).