EASE Copy link • EASE 1. s. Rest, etc., quies (rest absolutely): requies (rest after previous exertion): otium (state of being free from the calls of business): tranquillitas (freedom from the storms of life, from what is agitating); sometimes inertia: desidia (laziness, languor). A life of ease, otiosa vita (free from engrossing business). To enjoy not a moment of ease, nullam partem quietis capere: to seek a life of ease (i. e., withdrawn from public business), in otium se conferre (general term); a negotiis publicis se removere. To be at one’s ease (i. e., without agitation of mind), tranquillo animo et quieto frui: to set anybody’s mind at ease, alicujus animum tranquillare or sedare (opposed to alicujus animum perturbare); exonerare aliquem metu (e.g., civitatem, Liv.); levare aliquem (e.g., me levarat adventus tuus, Cic.). To set one’s conscience at ease, exonerare conscientiam (Curt.), or liberare et exonerare fidem suam (Liv.). PROV. To take one’s ease, and be merry, delicate et molliter vivere: facere sibi suaviter: benigne se tractare (general terms); largiter se invitare (also with cibo vinoque, Cort., Fragm. Sall., 4, 3, 13, p. 991); pelliculam or cutem (bene) curare (Schmid, Hor., Ep., 1, 2, 29). To be at one’s ease (= in good circumstances), in rebus secundis esse; in bona conditione esse; bene, beate or commode vivere: to consult one’s ease, to take one’s ease, dedere se desidiae; dare se languori: fond of his ease, in labore remissus nimis parumque patiens (Nep.); iners, deses. Unconstraint, etc., facilitas (e.g., of pronunciation or delivery, Quint.): levitas (e.g., verborum, natural and unaffected smoothness): simplicitas (e.g., morum). Easiness (opposed to difficulty), facilitas. With ease [Vid: EASILY]. Chapel of ease, *ecclesiae parochialis filia (Eccl.). 2. v. exonerare (to disburden; e.g., conscientiam, fidem suam, one’s conscience): levare, allevare (lighten the pressure of anything, levare inopiam, curam, sollicitudinem, aliquem metu; allevare aerumnas, sollicitudines): sublevare (res adversas, etc.; also to support): laxare (to diminish the tension of anything, PROP. and figuratively; e.g., vim morbi, Curt.; also animum, Cic.; laborem, Liv.; iram, Stat.): expedire: explicare (to facilitate the progress of anything; e.g., expedire negotia; explicare et expedire negotia, Caes.; expedire onera, Hirtius). Assuage, lenire: mitigare: mollire: allevare: sublevare: temperare. [SYN. in ALLEVIATE.] To ease pain, dolorem lenire or mitigare; grief or sorrow, levare luctum or aliquem luctu; anybody’s trouble, vexation, etc., levare or expedire aliquem molestia or molestiis (Cic.). With “of before the thing, levare aliquem aliqua re (e.g., metu, luctu, from fear, sorrow, etc.). [Vid: To FREE.] To ease anybody of some portion of his toil, partem laboris alicui minuere.