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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mitigat, p.p. and ppl. a. Also: mitigatt, mytigat; mitigate, -ait, (-iat), mytigate, myttigait; metigate. [E. (1432–50) and e.m.E. mitigate, L. mītigāt-us p.p. of mītigāre Mitigat v.]

1. p.p. In various uses of Mitigat v.: Rendered more gentle, mollified, appeased; tempered, moderated; abated. b. ppl. a.(1) a1538 Abell 74 b.
Quhen he hard at he wes heril Lupoldis sone he wes mitigait a1568 Bann. MS. 219 b/31.
And mak hir hairt with mercy mytigat 1569 Reg. Privy C. II. 38.
Lord Oliphant … wald na wayis be mitigat be requeist or fair wordis(2) 1533 Boece viii. iii. 252 b.
The ferocite of oure inemyis was nocht mytigate Ib. xiii. vi. 510.
Quhen … his fervoure sum parte was mytigate a1538 Abell 12 a.
His yre wes myttigait trowand that [etc.] a1568 Bann. MS. 220 a/60.
Bot o allace be nocht so indurat With mercy mak ȝour malice mitigiat 1568 Buch. Indict. 38.
Thinkand hir passioun and coleir sumquhat mitigat(3) 1497 Acta Conc. II. 82.
The panys contenit in the sammyn [act] … to be mitigat be the Kingis hienes 1590 Digest Justiciary Proc. M. 11.
The dome of deid … wpone certane respectis mitigat be ws 1654 Dumfries Kirk S. 16 Feb.
The sessione have metigate & allayed Thomas Hislope his censure(4) 1565 Reg. Privy C. I. 393.
[A] supplicatioun … desyrand the act and ordinance … to be mitigat 1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 223.
That the rigour of the acts … anent the placeing of hedder staks be mitigatt(5) 1633 Linlithgow B. Rec. 6 Sept.
The … counsall hes mitigat the wnlaw of twentie pundis imposit wpone Mairtein Glen 1660 Aberd. Council Lett. IV. 9.
That all indeavouris may be used for obtaining the excyse to be mitigattb. 1513 Doug. vi. Prol. 43 (1553).
Ane mitigat pane for sinnis veniall

2. a. Of a storm: Abated, calmed. b. Of satire or invective: Made more gentle, ‘softened’, ‘toned down’.a. 1533 Boece xii. xiii. 479 b.
Quhen this tempest was mytigatb. 1568 Lyndesay Pref. 3.
Sum will think, because his wryting was commounlie mixit with mowis … the matter was the mair mitigate

3. ppl. a. Of persons: Moderate in ‘complexion’. c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus Prol. 113.
Sumpart ar cauld, and sum agane ar ha[it], Sumpart ar dry and sum are mitigait