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Besoothe

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To soothe about or all over; comfort. transitive

    "Attracting downward some responsive grace Or balm which heal'd him, like the hand of God: Or haply music, (like the lyre of old, Tuned into magic by the sweeping touch Of David, when he charm'd the fiend from Saul,) Besoothed the spirit; till o'er all his frame A lulling softness exquisitely crept, And he was cradled in the charm of sound."

Etymology

From be- + soothe.

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