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Definition of Mitigated
1. Adjective. Made less severe or intense. "He gladly accepted the mitigated penalty"
Definition of Mitigated
1. Adjective. lessened, reduced, diminished ¹
2. Verb. (past of mitigate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mitigated
1. mitigate [v] - See also: mitigate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitigated
Literary usage of Mitigated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"(For an exposition of absolute Dualism, see ALBIGENSES; on the mitigated form,
... The moral system, organization, and liturgy of absolute and mitigated ..."
2. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"Cause of fevers destroyed or mitigated by sanative measures.—The morbid effect
of the cause is destroyed or mitigated, ..."
3. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"All fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed by this act shall be sued for,
recovered, levied, or mitigated by such ways, means, or methods as any fine, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Innkeepers and Pledge by James Schouler (1897)
"The Same Subject; Rigor mitigated by Modern Legislation.— Recent legislation,
however, to which we shall presently recur, enables the innkeeper, ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The cruel treatment of the insolvent debtors of the state, is attested, and was
perhaps mitigated by a very humane edict of Constantine, who, ..."
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