palliate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PAL'LIATE, verb transitive [Low Latin pallio, from pallium, a cloke or robe.] 1. To clothe. 2. To cover with excuse; to conceal the enormity of offenses by excuses and apologies; hence, to extenuate; to lessen; to soften by favorable representations; as, to palliate faults, offenses, crimes or vices. 3. To reduce in violence; to mitigate; to lessen or abate; as, to palliate a disease. PAL'LIATE, adjective Eased; mitigated. [Not used.]
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