mitigantadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈmɪtᵻɡ(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈmɪdəɡ(ə)nt/

Forms: 1500s mytygant, 1500s 1700s– mitigant.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mitigant.

Etymology: < Middle French mitigant (1537 in the passage translated in quot. ?1541 at sense A.) < classical Latin mītigant- , mītigāns , present participle (used as an adjective in post-classical Latin (5th cent.) of remedies) of mītigāre mitigate v. Compare Old Occitan mitigan (13th cent.), Italian mitigante (a1333), Spanish mitigante (1493).

A. adj.

Mitigating, soothing. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > making less violent or severe > mitigating or alleviating

mitigativea1400

swaging1483

mitiganta1538

mitigatory1598

delenifical1656

alleviative1770

a1538 W. Holme Fall & Euill Successe Rebellion (1572) sig. G.iij Thus our wolues..If they had obtayned, would haue followed this fable, Deuouring the elect all Chrystes lawes mitigant.

?1541 R. Copland tr. Galen Terapeutyke sig. Cij A playster made of mytygant thynges [Fr. choses mitigantes].

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mitigant, mitigating.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 558 The oxygen is the tempering, mitigant..principle of life.

1899 Harper's Weekly 14 Jan. 53/3 His irresistible desire to obtain ‘experience’..should have no mitigant influence whatever on his sentence.

B. n.

A mitigating agent or influence; something that alleviates, soothes, or tempers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun] > soothing medicine

lenitive1563

acopon1566

mitigator1586

diminutive1596

assuagement1599

mitigatory1656

levative1657

lenient1672

balsamic1713

demulcent1732

assuasive1829

mitigant1838

obtundent1842

torpent1882

chill pill1981

1838 Southern Literary Messenger 4 266/1 Does not Mr. Goddard offer a remedy—or at least a mitigant—well worth trying, for this terrible endemic?

1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Sept. 1/1 A simple disease which yields to mitigants.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 668 Greater and lesser social inequality, of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude.

1954 Amer. Econ. Rev. 44 1 I have argued that there is a third mitigant of substantial..importance in our time... The neutralization of one position of power by another.

1997 Jrnl. Project Finance (Nexis) Fall 55 The single most effective mitigant for this higher risk will be increased earnings power.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mitigant
释义	mitigantadj.n. Brit. /ˈmɪtᵻɡ(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈmɪdəɡ(ə)nt/ Forms: 1500s mytygant, 1500s 1700s– mitigant. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mitigant. Etymology: < Middle French mitigant (1537 in the passage translated in quot. ?1541 at sense A.) < classical Latin mītigant- , mītigāns , present participle (used as an adjective in post-classical Latin (5th cent.) of remedies) of mītigāre mitigate v. Compare Old Occitan mitigan (13th cent.), Italian mitigante (a1333), Spanish mitigante (1493). A. adj. Mitigating, soothing. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > making less violent or severe > mitigating or alleviating mitigativea1400 swaging1483 mitiganta1538 mitigatory1598 delenifical1656 alleviative1770 a1538 W. Holme Fall & Euill Successe Rebellion (1572) sig. G.iij Thus our wolues..If they had obtayned, would haue followed this fable, Deuouring the elect all Chrystes lawes mitigant. ?1541 R. Copland tr. Galen Terapeutyke sig. Cij A playster made of mytygant thynges [Fr. choses mitigantes]. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mitigant, mitigating. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 558 The oxygen is the tempering, mitigant..principle of life. 1899 Harper's Weekly 14 Jan. 53/3 His irresistible desire to obtain ‘experience’..should have no mitigant influence whatever on his sentence. B. n. A mitigating agent or influence; something that alleviates, soothes, or tempers. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun] > soothing medicine lenitive1563 acopon1566 mitigator1586 diminutive1596 assuagement1599 mitigatory1656 levative1657 lenient1672 balsamic1713 demulcent1732 assuasive1829 mitigant1838 obtundent1842 torpent1882 chill pill1981 1838 Southern Literary Messenger 4 266/1 Does not Mr. Goddard offer a remedy—or at least a mitigant—well worth trying, for this terrible endemic? 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Sept. 1/1 A simple disease which yields to mitigants. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 668 Greater and lesser social inequality, of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude. 1954 Amer. Econ. Rev. 44 1 I have argued that there is a third mitigant of substantial..importance in our time... The neutralization of one position of power by another. 1997 Jrnl. Project Finance (Nexis) Fall 55 The single most effective mitigant for this higher risk will be increased earnings power. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1538
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