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mitigated, ppl. a.|ˈmɪtɪgeɪtɪd|
[f. mitigate v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb. spec. designating or pertaining to a religious order less austere than other orders.
1671Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xxxii. 199 The Fathers of the Mitigated Rule. Ibid. xxxv. 232 The Mitigated Fathers Carmelites had bin attempting the same. 1694Earl of Perth Let. 17 Sept. (1845) 44 They are called rich Clarisses, because the poor Clarisses are of a far more rigid order..; these are far more mitigated, and they gave us an entertainment of musick. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 10 May, Saying, in a mitigated tone—‘Surely I am much obliged—’. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. 1842 I. 517 Who, though they perfectly abhor a despotick government, certainly approached more nearly to the love of mitigated monarchy, than [etc.]. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 36 Fined in the mitigated penalty of ten pounds. 1869G. Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 12 The solid mitigated nitrate of silver. 1884Hunter & Whyte My Ducats & My Dau. iii, She was dressed in mitigated mourning. 1888[see Carmelite n. and a. 1 b]. 1948W. S. Maugham Catalina ix. 43 Since it was a convent of the mitigated order they enjoyed a good deal of freedom.
Hence ˈmitigatedly adv., in a mitigated degree.
1884H. James Little Tour in France xviii, This young man..was mitigatedly monastic. He had a big brown frock and cowl, but he had also a shirt and a pair of shoes. |