Palliate Definition

pălē-āt
palliated, palliates, palliating
verb
palliated, palliates, palliating
To make less severe or intense; mitigate.
American Heritage
To lessen the pain or severity of without actually curing; alleviate; ease.
Webster's New World
To make appear less serious or offensive; excuse; extenuate.
Webster's New World
To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies. [from 17th c.]
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To placate or mollify. [from 17th c.]

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adjective

(obsolete) Cloaked; hidden, concealed. [15th-17th c.]

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(obsolete) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
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Origin of Palliate

  • From Latin palliatus (“cloaked") (in Late Latin the past participle of palliare (“to cover with a cloak")), from pallium (“cloak").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English palliaten from Late Latin palliāre palliāt- to cloak, palliate from Latin pallium cloak

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Palliate Sentence Examples

  • Manganese by itself rather lessens than increases the malleableness and, indeed, the general merit of the metal, but it is added intentionally, in quantities even as large as 1 5 to palliate the effects of sulphur and oxygen.

  • But the political dangers to be apprehended from the disruption of the English Church were sufficiently serious to palliate the fraud.

  • In spite of the weak efforts of the British government to palliate the significance of this " untoward incident," Turkey broke off diplomatic relations with the three powers concerned, and on the 10th of December Mahmud, giving full vent to his rage, issued a hatt-i-sherif denouncing the cruelty and perfidy of the Christian powers, declaring the convention of Akkerman null and void, and summoning the faithful to a holy war.

  • Valves of the Shell of alimentary tract altogether, and must Cytherea (one of the Si be regarded as a special and peculiar palliate Isomya), from the development of the median anterior part pa dorsal aspect.

  • One great blot on his reputation is that step by step he was led on to palliate violence and crime, to the excesses of which his eyes were only opened by the massacres of September, and which ultimately overwhelmed the party of Girondists which he led.

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