PALLIATE

a. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Covered with a mant [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

2.
a.

Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

3.
v.

To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.] Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert.

4.
v.

To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift.

5.
v.

To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease. To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. Cowper.

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