单词 | mitigable |
释义 | mitigableadj. Susceptible to or permitting mitigation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > become or made less violent or severe > able to be mitigablea1677 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > anaesthetization, pain-killing, etc. > [adjective] > pain killing > of pain: capable of being alleviated mitigable1822 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 19 What cause was there..that the malice of my minde should be immitigable? a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 278 Her most vnmittigable rage. View more context for this quotation] a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 213 The rigour of that ceremonious law was mitigable. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 54 The pain will be..far less mitigable. 1887 E. Gurney Tertium Quid I. 182 Supposing the pain of the rack to be mitigable. 1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 Feb. i. 62/3 A statement..that the [environmental] impact would be ‘mitigable’. 1990 Daily Tel. 26 Feb. 25/3 In addition to these penalties, a mitigable penalty of up to £3,000 may be charged. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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