Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the palate; pleasing to the taste; palatable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Pleasing to the taste; palatable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Pleasing to the taste; palatable.

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Examples

  • When facing someone who might get strokes say, every month, they just give up and suggest a palative hospice I think they have tried to 'suggest' one for me about three times.

    Japan April 2008: dying and living Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • PUNISH not thyself with pleasure; glut not thy sense with palative delights; nor revenge the contempt of temperance by the penalty of satiety.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

  • To allow an aborted baby born alive to struggle without even palative care before it meets its pitiful end -- what monster would vote for that fearing it might weaken Roe v. Wade?

    Collecting My Thoughts 2008

  • "Punish not thyself with pleasure; glut not thy sense with palative delights; nor revenge the contempt of temperance by the penalty of satiety.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • "We are going to set up a nuclear medicine facility, radiotherapy and palative care in the fourth phase of the NCC project within two years.

    Brudirect News1 2010

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