What does "palliative" mean?
Palliative: Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Additional senses
- 2.That which palliates; a palliative agent. Sir W. Scott.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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