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asswaged

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[uh-sweyjd, uh-sweyzhd] / əˈsweɪdʒd, əˈsweɪʒd /

adjective

  1. an obsolete variant of assuaged.


Etymology

Origin of asswaged

First recorded in 1530–40

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When the bad Weather was a little asswaged, Captain Swan hired a House to put our Sails and Goods in, while we careen’d our Ship.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 by Emma Helen Blair

If the Distemper is not considerably asswaged by the first Bleeding, it should be repeated some Hours after.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

"Yet by the helpe of a precious oile, Doctour Russel applyed, ere night his tormenting paine was so wel asswaged that he eate the fish to his supper."

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes

"And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged."

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

"And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged."

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

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