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Becalm   /bɪkˈɑm/   Listen
Becalm

verb
(past & past part. becalmed; pres. part. becalming)
1.
Make steady.  Synonyms: calm, steady.





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... (in Greek and Latin), bound partly in black leather, with gilt edges; and for Le prose dil Bembo, a volume in small quarto with a parchment binding.[170] This throws light on Luis de Leon's progress as a linguist. An imprisoned man who asks for an Italian book to becalm his fever may be safely presumed to know that language. In or about 1569 when Arias Montano read aloud the anonymous Italian work which disturbed Zuniga's scrupulous conscience, Luis de Leon, though of course able to catch the author's drift, did not really know Italian at ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
 
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