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palliate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is possible to palliate without cure.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palliate \Pal"li*ate\, a. [L. palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak. See Pall the garment.] Covered with a mantle; cloaked; hidden; disguised. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.] --Bp. Fell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"alleviate without curing," early 15c., from Medieval Latin palliatus , literally "cloaked," from past participle of Late Latin palliare "cover with a cloak, conceal," from Latin pallium "cloak" (see pall (n.)). Related: Palliated ; palliating ; palliation ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime" [syn: extenuate , mitigate ] provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" [syn: relieve , alleviate , assuage ]
Usage examples of palliate.
Miss Margland, though to the Baronet she would not recede from her first assertions, strove vainly to palliate to herself the ill grace and evident dissatisfaction with which Edgar had met the report.
These apparent errors in the doctrine of Thwackum served greatly to palliate the contrary errors in that of Square, which our good man no less saw and condemned.
The meanness of her condition did not represent her misery as of little consequence in his eyes, nor did it appear to justify, or even to palliate, his guilt, in bringing that misery upon her.
It is equally sure to set off every female perfection to the highest advantage, and to palliate and conceal every defect.
Each of them therefore now endeavoured, as much as he could, to palliate the offence which his own child had committed, and to aggravate the match of the other.
Though the reeds thrashed and whipped at the oarsmen on the windward side of the boat, they did palliate the force of wind and waves to some degree.
The innocence of Crispus was so universally acknowledged, that the modern Greeks, who adore the memory of their founder, are reduced to palliate the guilt of a parricide, which the common feelings of human nature forbade them to justify.
Barbarians, too ignorant to conceive the importance of truth, too proud to deny or palliate the breach of their most solemn engagements.
You will, I trust, assume I had enough interest in her father to palliate my conduct in a measure.
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine than to prevent them by regimen.
The most valuable lives are daily destroyed by diseases that it is dangerous to palliate and impossible to cure by medicine.
I will not say that their foes are the aggressors, nor will I endeavour to palliate their conduct.
He was a strong man with an austere command of himself, and when he had to face death he divested himself of all that could palliate the suffering, and stood up to it with a stark resolution which was more Roman than Christian.
Who does not see that this is a remedy which aggravates whilst it palliates the countless diseases of society?
This dreadful shake might have been palliated, at least, if not spared, by the lessons of fortitude that noble woman would have inculcated in her young and ductile mind.