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▪ I. palliate, ppl. a.|ˈpælɪət|
[ad. L. palliātus cloaked, f. palli-um cloak (-ate2 2); afterwards pa. pple. of late L. palliāre to cloak, palliate.]
†A. as pa. pple. Cloaked, covered, concealed; mitigated. Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV, Introd. (1550) 4 b, They sente the reuerent father Thomas Arundell..in habite pallyate and dissimuled, into the citee of Paris. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. x. §5 The fault..must be accommodate and palliate by dyets and medicines familiar. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 242 That was still the cloak under whilk was palliat all the wicked plotts aganis the Kirk of God.
B. as adj.
†1. Wearing a cloak (in quot., a philosopher's cloak: see pallium 1). Obs.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xiii. xvi. (1620) 457 Lest the communication of this name with the vulgar, should debase the proud..number of the Palliate.
†2. Cloaked; having its real nature concealed.
1612R. Fenton Usury 128 That..may in matter bee a palliat or cloaked vsurie. 1648Hammond Serm. iv. Wks. 1684 IV. 494 God may..give us a treacherous settlement, a palliate peace.
†3. Of a cure: Superficial or temporary. Obs.
a1625Cope in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 131 All his industry and sales, did in your estate make but a palliate cure. 1679M. Prance Addit. Narr. Pop. Plot 30 Cardinal Poole..did not..absolve their Consciences from Restitution, but only made a palliate Cure.
4. Zool. Having a pallium (sense 3 b); tectibranchiate.
1890in Cent. Dict.
▪ II. palliate, v.|ˈpælɪeɪt|
[f. palliate ppl. a.; cf. late L. palliāre (Apuleius, 2nd c.) to cloak, F. pallier, which may have aided the formation.]
†1. trans. To cover with or as with a cloak; to cloak, clothe, shelter; to invest. Also fig. Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 32 Surmyse set foorth and palliated with the vesture..of a professed veritee. 1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Palliate, cloake. 1630T. Westcote Devon. (1845) 60 Her sheep..are palliated under the coverture of the high-grown hedges of enclosures. 1635Gellibrand Variation Magn. Needle 3 The Ocean, which palliates the imperfect parts of the Earth. 1656Boulton Medicina Ded. A ij b, It is the accustomed manner of our modern Writers, alwaies to palliate themselves under the Protection of some worthy Patron.
†2. fig. To hide, conceal, disguise. Obs. or arch.
1598Bacon Sacred Medit. vii. (Arb.) 117 Hipocrites with their dissembling holinesse towards God doe palliate and couer their iniuries towardes men. 1706Phillips, To Palliate, to disguise, daub, colour or cloak. 1795Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) III. 58 The bankruptcy of their India Company, long palliated, now stands confest. 1809–12M. Edgeworth Almeria vii, Her name was printed among the list of subscribers, and there was no palliating the fact.
3. To alleviate the symptoms of a disease without curing it; to relieve superficially or temporarily; to mitigate the sufferings of; to ease.
In early use the notion was that of cloaking, disguising, patching up; this passed gradually into that of alleviating the symptoms: cf. 4.
1588J. Read Compend. Method 60 They [bone-diseases] eyther bee neuer cured, or else onelie so palliated that they breake out againe. 1601Holland Pliny II. Explan. Words Art A v b, So sweet Pomanders doe palliat a stinking breath, occasioned by a corrupt stomack or diseased lungs, and such like. 1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 351 Let mountebanks palliate, cures break out again, being never soundly but superficially healed. a1714Abp. Sharp Serm. (1738) V. ix. 284 He is but half a Physician; he hath palliated our sores and diseases, but he hath not removed them. 1876Rogers Pol. Econ. xxi. (ed. 3) 281 That which cannot be cured must be palliated.
4. To disguise or colour the real enormity of (an offence) by favourable representations or excuses; to represent (an evil) as less than it really is; to cause to appear less guilty or offensive by urging extenuating circumstances; to extenuate, excuse.
This has passed gradually from the sense of cloak (as in 2), disguise, colour, to that of extenuate, lessen the gravity of.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. 317, I neede not seeke colours to palliate my actions or words. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. ix. 27 This advice causing him to see his fault..he labored to have palliated it with certain excuses. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. I. iii. 215 They endeavoured to palliate what they could not justify. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 83 The illegal imprisonment cannot be explained away, and cannot be palliated. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. I. i. 119 These considerations only slightly palliate his conduct.
b. To excuse (a person).
1862M. B. Edwards John & I xxxi. (1876) 236 As well endeavour to show that black is white, as to prove that any temptations you may have had can in the smallest degree palliate you.
†5. To make less emphatic or pronounced; to moderate, mitigate, qualify or tone down (esp. one's action or statement). Also absol. or intr. To take up a more moderate position, to compromise. Obs.
1665Pepys Diary 31 Dec., The great evil of this year..is the fall of my Lord of Sandwich, whose mistake about the prizes hath undone him..though sent (for a little palliating it) Embassador into Spayne. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 223 Do you think the Christians would have palliated so far, and colluded with their Consciences? 1711Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 135 The Author..is forc'd to palliate what he said about Mr. Harley's being an Accomplice by an Advertisement he has in his Paper last Night. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1749) II. xxxvi. 241 To obtain this time, you must palliate a little, and come into some seeming compromise. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 489 This fanciful piece of beauty [small feet] was probably invented by the ancient Chinese, to palliate their jealousy.
†b. To appease, please, or indulge (one's taste).
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 154, I haue inserted these parcels of the Psalter, that by this occasion my Reader might palliate his taste with an Essay of our Ancestors old English. a1632T. Taylor God's Judgem. ii. vii. (1642) 110 Next all the Candies, Preserves, all the Junkets..to palliate his taste.
†c. To moderate the hostility of. Obs. rare.
1678Bunyan Pilgr. Apol. 59 Yea, that I might them better palliate [ed. 1684 altered to moderate], I did too with them thus Expostulate. |