Palliate /(?)/

1. Covered with a mantle; cloaked; hidden; disguised. [Obs.]
2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Palliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Palliating

1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.]

   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.