extenuativeadj.n.
A. adj.
a. Tending to make lean.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin > making
extenuative1583
extenuating1607
emaciating1626
emaciant1638
emacerating1681
extenuant1756
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke ii. ix. 67 They haue more need of extenuatiue meates then those that haue the Pleurisy.
b. Tending to extenuate (guilt).
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > [adjective] > extenuating
mincing1581
mitigating1583
extenuating1607
favourable1693
palliating1710
palliative1748
extenuatory1807
extenuative1827
palliatory1845
mitigatory1868
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. v. iii. 51 Proving the existence of some justificative, or extenuative, or exemptive, circumstance.
B. n.
a. Something serving to extenuate guilt.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > [noun] > partial excuse
extenuativea1734
palliative1747
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §90 Another Extenuative of the intended Rebellion.
b. A medicine producing ‘extenuation’ or emaciation.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicines used to affect nutrition > [noun] > anti-fat preparations
extenuative1818
anti-fat1882
starch blocker1981
orlistat1992
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 524 Be a little more sparing of extenuatives and soporifics.
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