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ous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.

To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate. [Obs.] Skelton.

To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity. It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison. Shak.

To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate. The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley.

That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson.

Notoriously or preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] Chaucer.

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assu…

Anything that heals or that mitigates pain. "Balm for each ill." Mrs. Hemans. Balm cricket (Zoöl.), the European cicada. Tennyson. -- Balm of Gilead (Bot.), a small evergreen African and Asiatic tree of the terebinthine family (Balsamodendron Gileadense). Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong aromatic scent; and fr…

To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate. My couch shall ease my complaint. Job vii. 13.

A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever. -- a.

Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased. Coleridge.

That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative. There is one sweet Lenitive at least for evils, which Nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep. Sterne.

Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.

Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lentitive. Johnson.

The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.

Tending to mitigate; alleviating.

One who, or that which, mitigates.

Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

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