Both Uses of
palliate
in
Fathers and Sons
- I have prescribed him centaury and St. John's wort, ordered him to eat carrots, given him soda; but all that's merely palliative measures; we want some more decided treatment.†
Chpt 21 *
- My father at sixty is fussing around, talking about "palliative" measures, doctoring people, playing the bountiful master with the peasants—having a festive time, in fact; and my mother's happy too; her day's so chockful of duties of all sorts, and sighs and groans that she's no time even to think of herself; while I ...' 'While you?'†
Chpt 21
Definition:
to make something less bad -- especially pain or an offense