There are many palliatives for the evils which I have discussed.

Instantly recovering himself, and starting to rub his head, he as suddenly checked that palliative process by a wild run to his feet and a hideous bellow.

No palliatives; but all the stark wickedness that actually gives the momentum to national actors.

The display of superior knowledge or riches may be made sufficiently mortifying; but these admit of a palliative.

But the display of married happiness has none of these palliatives: it is throughout pure, unrecompensed, unqualified insult.

I defended ye all as well as I could: but you know there was no attempting aught but a palliative defence, to one of her principles.

They would see now that no mitigations, no palliatives, would either be efficient or admissible.

In many unexpected places there is visible a profound sense that something is so fundamentally wrong that palliatives are useless and some drastic reform is necessary, a reform that may almost amount to revolution.

The reforms, such as they are, are largely in the line of palliatives; the deep-lying factors, those that control both success and failure, are seldom touched upon.

" The project left all his hearers astounded, accustomed as they were to palliative measures.

antifebrile [Med.], antipoison^, counterpoison^, antitoxin, antispasmodic; bracer, faith cure, placebo; helminthagogue^, lithagogue^, pick-meup, stimulant, tonic; vermifuge, prophylactic, corrective, restorative; sedative &c 174; palliative; febrifuge; alterant^, alterative; specific; antiseptic, emetic, analgesic, pain-killer, antitussive

Adj. remedial; restorative &c 660; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory^, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous &c (salutary) 656 [Obs.]; medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical

Contenting themselves with palliatives, and failing to apply even theseespecially such as were the most important, the improvement of justice, for instance, and the distribution of the domainsin proper season and due measure, they helped to prepare evil days for their posterity.

The object of this volume is to collect, arrange, and examine some of the leading facts and forces in modern industrial life which have a direct bearing upon Poverty, and to set in the light they afford some of the suggested palliatives and remedies.

It is true, the Oxford Dons are often charged with injustice and partiality, and too often the evidence is not sufficiently strong to excuse their judgments; but in this the evidence was not denied; only a palliative was put in, which every one can see through.

He is a magnificent boy: butI can only give palliatives.

Palliatives for the act will undoubtedly be plead; but the act itself will probably make a hero, in the estimation of his countrymen, of Mr. McNab, if it does nothing more.

He was done with palliatives, finding men jobs, giving Christmas turkeys, paying for coal.

Different poets describing the spring or the sea would mention the zephyrs and the flowers, the billows and the rocks; reflecting on human life, they would, without any communication of opinions, lament the deceitfulness of hope, the fugacity of pleasure, the fragility of beauty, and the frequency of calamity; and for palliatives of these incurable miseries, they would concur in recommending kindness, temperance, caution, and fortitude.

If St. Paul's begins to totter it is no good propping it up with half a dozen walking-sticks, and small palliatives have no legitimate place at all in this discussion.

Thank God nowadays, at least, we have come to believe in the cleanness of surgery rather than the concealing palliatives of medicine.

Treaties and truces were palliatives which did not touch the real underlying trouble.

I dare to say that I am not scared more than another at sight of abuses and disorder, but it is time to apply to an evil which is at its height other remedies than palliatives, which, for the most part, merely aggravate it and render it incurable as long as war lasts.

An Irony is look'd upon as the finest Palliative of Praise; and very often conveys the noblest Panegyrick under the Appearance of Satire.

No slight palliatives or occasional expedients will give the country the relief it needs.