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Tranquillising

adjective
1.
Tending to soothe or tranquilize.  Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillizing.  "Took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed"



Tranquillise

verb
1.
Make calm or still.  Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillize.
2.
Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to.  Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillize.



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"Tranquillising" Quotes from Famous Books



... assigned to an earlier period experiences which were of gradual growth, and which only at a later date were realised with the vividness he ascribes to them. If we turn to his actual life during the same period, it is equally hard to trace in it the results of the tranquillising influence which he ascribes to Spinoza. As we have seen him, he was in mind distracted by uncertainty regarding the special function for which nature intended him; and in his affections the victim of emotions which by their very nature could not receive their full ...
— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown
 
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... through other and occult agencies, he could not surmise. But one thing was plain enough; nothing that had happened or that threatened to happen was now disturbing her. And her gaiety and high spirits were reassuring him and tranquillising his mind to a degree for which, on reflection, he could scarcely account, knowing the ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
 
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... MUSICAL NOTE.—The most tranquillising, or even somniferous melodies ever composed, must have been those written by the celebrated LULLI. The first thing by LULLI was ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 1, 1892 • Various
 
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... to the first experiment. There was, in the novelty and strangeness of the position, an excitement which never wholly passed away, but which became gradually subordinate to the influence, at once tranquillising and elevating, of the mingled eternity ...
— Crotchet Castle • Thomas Love Peacock
 
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... few years of Assur-bani-pal's reign were spent in tranquillising Egypt by means of the sword, in suppressing insurrections, and in expelling Ethiopian invaders. After the destruction of Thebes in B.C. 661 the country sullenly submitted to the foreign rule; its strength was exhausted, and its leaders and priesthood ...
— Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations • Archibald Sayce
 
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