lenitif

Old French

Adjective

lenitif m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lenitive)

1. (medicine) calming; soothing
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 203 of this essay:

     s’il prent laxatif il doit estre foible et lenitif

     if he takes a laxative, it must be weak and soothing