PAL'LIATIVE, adjective Extenuating; serving to extenuate by excuses or favorable representation. 1. Mitigating; alleviating; as pain or disease. PAL'LIATIVE, noun That which extenuates. 1. That which mitigates, alleviates or abates the violence of pain, disease or other evil.
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