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Definition of Mitigant
1. a. Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lenitive.
Definition of Mitigant
1. Adjective. Tending to mitigate. ¹
2. Noun. Something that mitigates; a lenitive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mitigant
1. mitigating [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitigant
Literary usage of Mitigant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lang's German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied by Hugo Lang, Milton Kayton Meyers (1913)
"... lacteal, lactic Mildern, vt to mitigate, to alleviate, to moderate; to correct
Mildernd, a. mitigant, alleviating, demulcent Milderung, /. mitigation, ..."
2. The Vaccination Inquirer and Health Review (1880)
"It does not require a very learned society to teach us that if a supposed remedy
or mitigant leaves the same proportionate number of patients in hospitals, ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"... in magnis doloribus, veluti calculi, aut in ab- scissione membrorum, dolores
mitigant ; maxime per fugam ..."
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