calmative
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
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Omniscient as Sherlock Holmes and calmative as Candida, Constance knows all about it and does not wish to be told.
From Time Magazine Archive
To this individual, as a kind of human calmative and tonic combined, Sir Roger de Launay was in the habit of going whenever he felt his own customary tranquillity at all disturbed.
From Temporal Power by Marie Corelli
He would let Storri vent his excitement, blow off steam, as Mr. Harley expressed it; and then he would go about those calmative steps of explanation and assurance suggested of the case.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
I states ag'in," he retorted, puffing a calmative cloud the while, "I states ag'in: Thar's no sooperstition ridin' the ranges of my breast.
From Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis
The Turkish bath is a calmative to the nervous and the vascular systems, and therefore of great utility in cases of sleeplessness.
From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables
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