allay Copy link Outline I. To quiet, appease1. sēdo, 12. compōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3II. To abate, to mitigate1. sēdo, 12. mulceo, si, sum, 2 • allay: I. To quiet, appease: 1. sēdo, 1: to a. a tumult, tumultum s., Caes.: to a. discords, discordias s., Cic. 2. compōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3: to a. disputes, c. lites, Virg.: Liv.: to a. discords, discordias c., Tac.: v. to appease. II. To abate, to mitigate: 1. sēdo, 1: to a. thirst, sitim s., Lucr.: to a. hunger and thirst, famem ac sitim s., Plin. 2. mulceo, si, sum, 2: to a. pains of the nerves, dolores nervorum m., Plin.: v. to assuage.
ALLAY Copy link • 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).