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mitigant, a. and n. rare.|ˈmɪtɪgənt| [ad. L. mītigant-em, pr. pple. of mītigāre to mitigate: see -ant1.] A. adj. Mitigating, lenitive.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 C ij, A playster made of mytygant thynges. 1727in Bailey vol. II. 1755 in Johnson. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 558 The oxygen is the tempering, mitigant..principle of life. B. n. Something that mitigates; a lenitive.
1865Pall Mall G. No. 182. 1/1 A simple disease which yields to mitigants. |