Verb
besoothe (besoothes, present participle besoothing; past and past participle besoothed)
- (transitive) To soothe about or all over; comfort.
- 1842, Robert Montgomery, Martin Luther, Luther: or, The spirit of the Reformation:
- Attracting downward some responsive grace Or balm which heal'd him, like the hand of God: Or haply music, (like the lyre of old, Tuned into magic by the sweeping touch Of David, when he charm'd the fiend from Saul,) Besoothed the spirit; till o'er all his frame A lulling softness exquisitely crept, And he was cradled in the charm of sound.
- 1842, Robert Montgomery, Martin Luther, Luther: or, The spirit of the Reformation:
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