asswage

American  

[uh-sweyj, uh-sweyzh] / əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒ /

verb

1. an obsolete variant of assuage.

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Etymology

Origin of asswage

First recorded in 1530–40

Example Sentences

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asswage

For one that's basted to feel pain, Because the pangs his bones endure Contribute nothing to the cure: Yet honor hurt, is wont to rage 215 With pain no med'cine can asswage.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

To the End that by fit Applications he may asswage those Pains which he is oblig'd to cause his Patients to endure.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

The good Gods asswage thy wrath, and turne the dregs of it, vpon this Varlet heere: This, who like a blocke hath denyed my accesse to thee Corio.

From Coriolanus by Shakespeare, William

O thou God of order, and of truth, in thy good time abate the malice, asswage the rage, and confound all the mischievous devises of thine, mine, and thy Churches enemies.

From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by Charles I, King of England

Though our ignorance Of Cassilanes engagements might asswage Severity of justice, yet to shew How no excuse should smooth a breach of Law, I yield me to the trial of it.

From The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Beaumont, Francis