11.30.2004

PALLIATE
\Pal"li*ate\, a. [L. palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak.
See {Pall} the garment.]
1. Covered with a mant?e; cloaked; disguised. [Obs.] --Bp.
Hall.
2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.] --Bp. Fell.

\Pal"li*ate\, v. t. [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. --Sir T.
Herbert.
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. --Swift.
3. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to
ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
To palliate dullness, and give time a shove.
--Cowper.
Syn: To cover; cloak; hide; extenuate; conceal.
Usage: To {Palliate}, {Extenuate}, {Cloak}. These words, as
here compared, are used in a figurative sense in
reference to our treatment of wrong action. We cloak
in order to conceal completely. We extenuate a crime
when we endeavor to show that it is less than has been
supposed; we palliate a crime when we endeavor to
cover or conceal its enormity, at least in part. This
naturally leads us to soften some of its features, and
thus palliate approaches extenuate till they have
become nearly or quite identical. ``To palliate is not
now used, though it once was, in the sense of wholly
cloaking or covering over, as it might be, our sins,
but in that of extenuating; to palliate our faults is
not to hide them altogether, but to seek to diminish
their guilt in part.'' --Trench.

11.25.2004

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
"... something we haven't heard from them since the Rattle and Hum era."

11.20.2004

i am tired of the hand that is ignorant of what the other is doing.

11.18.2004

tsk. wala. my source code is bust. di nako marunong mag html. where'd my brain go!!?!
i cant link on this new temp. waaaaaah! gari, help! :(

eto nalang :( come visit my friend at transpontine.

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