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(1):

(a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

(2):

(a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.

(3):

(v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.

(4):

(v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.

(5):

(v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Palliate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/palliate.html. 1828.
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