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soothe (cf. Bailey's Dict. ‘to assent to, to flatter, or encourage’)
1. to humour Err. IV. iv. 81 “to him in these contraries,” 3H6 III. iii. 175 “to your forgery,” R3 I. iii. 298 “ the devil that I warn thee from,” Lr. III. iv. 181.
2. to flatter (trans. and intr.) John III. i. 121 “thou . . . s-'st up greatness,” Cor. II. ii. 78 “You s-'d not, therefore hurt not” ; in vbl. sb. and ppl. adj. R3 I. ii. 169 (Ff Qq7 8 “smoothing”), Cor. I. ix. 44, Pilgr. i. 11.
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