Obs. Also 6 blandimente, blandymente. [a. OF. blandiment, ad. L. blandīmentum; see -MENT.] By-form of BLANDISHMENT.

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c. 1510.  Barclay, Mirr. Good Mann. (1570), A j. Sweete blandiment of wordes amiable.

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c. 1510.  More, Picus, Wks. 4/2. Womens blandimentes.

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1569.  Newton, Cicero’s Old Age, 32. These blandiments of pleasure.

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  b.  fig. Soothing or healing action. (So L.)

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1684.  trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XIV. 509. Upon the first Blandiment of the Fomentation the pain grows milder.

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