Palliate
Palliate , adjective
[Latin palliatus, from pallium a cloak. See Pall the garment.]
1.
Covered with a mantle; cloaked; hidden; disguised. [Obsolete] — Bp. Hall
2.
Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obsolete] — Bp. Fell
Palliate , transitive verb
1.
To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obsolete]
Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat.
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.
3.
To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease without curing; as, to palliate a disease.
To palliate dullness, and give time a shove.