ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Lightened, mitigated.
1792. Cowper, Lett., 25 Nov. Wks. 1876, 405. My melancholy seemed a little alleviated for a few days.
1882. H. W. Beecher, Chr. World Pulpit, 13 Nov., 6. My father’s public teaching may be called alleviated Calvinism.
