tasswage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təˈsweɪd͡ʒ/

Contraction

tasswage

1. (obsolete, poetic) to assuage
   • 1554, Tottel, page 96:

     Folkes that vse to make great viages, Which vnderfong long trauaile and labour, When thei haue done gret part of their passages Of werines tasswage their rigour, again faintise to find some fauour, loke oft agayne parcell to be releued, to see how much theyr iourney is atcheued.

   • 1566, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, translated by John Studley, Studley's Translations of Seneca's Agamemnon and Medea:

     I am ashamed herewith all, it maketh me repyne, That Tyndaris (who from the gods doth fetche her noble lygne) Shold gyue the ghost tasswage y wrath of gods and then appeas , Wherby the grekyshe nauye myght haue passage

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Had not those two him instantly desired
     Tasswage his wrath , and pardon their mesprise

Anagrams

• wastages