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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

palliatif

Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate, mitigate, or alleviate.

Noun.

That which palliates; a palliative agent.

Sir W. Scott.

Adj.

Extenuating; serving to extenuate by excuses or favorable representation.

Mitigating; alleviating; as pain or disease.

Noun.

That which extenuates.

That which mitigates, alleviates or abates the violence of pain, disease or other evil.