The Only Use of
anodyne
in
Middlemarch
- When Rosamond was quiet, and Lydgate had left her, hoping that she might soon sleep under the effect of an anodyne, he went into the drawing-room to fetch a book which he had left there, meaning to spend the evening in his work-room, and he saw on the table Dorothea's letter addressed to him.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(anodyne) a medicine used to relieve pain
or:
something soothing, comforting or mild so as not to upset