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(), a.[L. palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak. See Pall the garment.] 1. Covered with a mantle; cloaked; disguised. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. 2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.] Bp. Fell. Pal"liate (), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Palliated(); p. pr. & vb. n.Palliating().] 1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.] Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert. 2. 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. 3. 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. Syn. -- To cover; cloak; hide; extenuate; conceal. -- To Palliate, Extenuate, Cloak. These words, as here compared, are used in a figurative sense in reference to our treatment of wrong action. We cloak in order to conceal completely. We extenuate a crime when we endeavor to show that it is less than has been supposed; we palliate a crime when we endeavor to cover or conceal its enormity, at least in part. This naturally leads us to soften some o スポンサード リンク
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