Middle English Dictionary Entry
palliātī̆f adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | palliātī̆f adj. Also -tive, paulatif. |
| Etymology | ML |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Serving to mitigate (a wound or disease), palliative; as mistransl.: serving to cover, concealing [quot.: Ch.(2)]; cure (governaunce) ~, a palliative regimen.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)0b/b : In al sikenes crafte commandeþ þe propre cure outake in 3 cases, in which sufficeþ a large cure preseruatiue ouþer palliatyue [Ch.(2): couerynge; Ch.(4): paulatif; L palliatiua].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)37a/a : I haue sene..a man þat hadde talpam vlcerate..to whom y counsailed a gouernance palliatife [Ch.(2): an hydynge gouernaunce], & he went his way.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)112a/a : Gouernaunce palliatif, which is competent to þe lepre confermed, haþ 3 entensionz.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)131b/b : Ennoynting wiþ þis oile..tarieþ þe aumentacioun of þe yuel and asswagiþ þe malice, and þis is cleped a palliatiue cure.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)150b/b : Ȝif..þe canker be aumented..leue þe verreie cure and cure him wiþ þe cure palliatiue.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)153b/b : It may not ben heled, but it moste be kepped wiþ ane esye cure & a palliatiue.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)298/20 : Of þe cure palliatyf, i. couerynge.