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verb

Allay v. t. (past & past part. allayed; pres. part. allaying)

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity. "It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison."

Synonyms: To alleviate; check; repress; assuage; appease; abate; subdue; destroy; compose; soothe; calm; quiet. See Alleviate.

Allay v. t. To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside. "When the rage allays."

Allay v. t. To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. (Archaic)

noun

Allay n. Alleviation; abatement; check. (Obs.)

Allay n. Alloy. (Obs.)

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"Allay" Quotes from Famous Books

... increased magnificence was regarded with suspicion and received with disfavor by the Jews, who feared that were the ancient edifice demolished, the arbitrary monarch might abandon his plan and the people would be left without a temple. To allay these fears the king proceeded to reconstruct and restore the old edifice, part by part, directing the work so that at no time was the temple service seriously interrupted. So little of the ancient structure was allowed ...

— Jesus the Christ - A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy - Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern • James Edward Talmage

... their pink noses they recognize the furniture: they find their own seats, their own tables, their own arm-chairs; but the surroundings are different. They give little surprised miaows and questioning glances. A few caresses and a saucer of milk allay all their apprehensions; and, by the next day, ...

— The Mason-bees • J. Henri Fabre

... confront, or confirm or make smooth some dread issue of power. To deliver true judgment aright at the instant unaided In the strict, level, ultimate phrase that allowed or dissuaded; To foresee, to allay, to avert from us perils unnumbered; To stand guard at our gates when he guessed that our watchman had slumbered; To win time, to turn hate, to woo folly to service, and mightily schooling His strength ...

— The Life of King Edward VII - with a sketch of the career of King George V • J. Castell Hopkins

... press, for the rights of man; by hurling back into the jaws of oppression, the fugitive gasping for his sacred liberty; by recognizing the right of one man to buy and sell other men; by spreading the blasting curse of despotism over the whole soil of the nation, you may allay the brutal frenzy of a handful of southern slave-masters; you may win back the cotton States to cease from threatening you with secession, and to plant their feet upon your necks, and so evade the trouble that now menaces us. Then you may live on the few ...

— The Underground Railroad • William Still

... would in private have spoken yet sweeter words of hope and consolation, which she might have carried home in gladness to her sick-souled brother, to comfort and strengthen him—words of might to allay the burning of the poison within him, and make him feel that after all there was yet a place for him in the universe, and that he was no outcast of Gehenna. But instead of such words of gentle might, like those of the man of ...

— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald

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