COMFORTATIVEADJ.
1. cheering, cheerful ...1377 obs. rare 2. strengthening, reviving, as medicine, food, etc. ...1398 obs. NOUN a strengthening or reviving medicine ...1398 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Middle English confortatif, from French confortatif, -ive: Latin type confortativus FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1377 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...And is companable and confortatyf, as cryst bit humselve" From: The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman By: William Langland, 1377 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891 • A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881 • A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908
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