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Of a person: emaciated, wasted, weakened; of the body or part of it: atrophied, shrunken, withered.
Of a quality or thing: lessened, weakened.
(RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas)
(RQ:Bacon New Atlantis)
Reduced to poverty; impoverished.
To make (something) less dense, or thinner; also, to lower the viscosity of (something).
(RQ:Elyot Castel of Helth) yf it be ſodden vntyll it loſeth his tarteneſſe, it ſomewhat nouryſſheth, and yet looſeth not his propertie, to extenuate groſſe humours: (..)
(RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World) unleſſe there enſue a drie ſeaſon and faire vveather to extenuate that groſſe ſubſtance into vvhich the Olive had turned the foreſaid juice and humour, all the oile is conſumed and loſt.
(RQ:Topsell Serpents)
(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)
(RQ:Sandys Divine Poems)
(RQ:Lovell Panzooryktologia)
To make (someone or something) slender or thin; to emaciate, to waste.
(RQ:Southey Church)
(RQ:Carlyle Friedrich)
To underestimate or understate the importance of (something); to underrate.
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones) In this Controverſy, the vvhole Company ſpoke together, and every Man ſeemed vvholly bent to extenuate the Sum vvhich fell to his Share; (..)
To diminish or seek to diminish the extent or severity of (a crime, guilt, a mistake, or something else negative) by making apologies or excuses; to palliate.

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(RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Cotes, for Bellamy (publisher)|John Bellamie,(nb...)|year=1636|page=327|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=GgM8AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA327|oclc=367388877|passage=Let us ſee hovv the vvicked behave themſelves here; they are full of their ovvne praiſes, the Phariſee ſaid, ''I faſt tvvice in the vveeke, and I give my tithes'': but vvhen he ſpeaketh of his ovvne ſinnes, he extenuateth them and maketh them nothing; (..)
(RQ:Hobbes Leviathan)
(RQ:Swift Gulliver)
(RQ:T. Fuller Directions)
(RQ:Isaac Taylor Saturday Evening)
(RQ:Landon Ethel Churchill)
To beat or draw (a metal object, etc.) out so as to lessen the thickness.
(RQ:Hakluyt Principall Navigations)|page=90|passage=The ''Chinians'' can very cunningly beate and extenuate gold into plates and leaues.
(RQ:Grew Musaeum Regalis Societatis)
To reduce the quality or quantity of (something); to lessen or weaken the force of (something).

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(RQ:Harvey Pierces Supererogation)
(RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer Q1)'', looke you arme your ſelfe, / To fit your fancies, to your fathers vvill; / Or elſe, the Lavv of ''Athens'' yeelds you vp / (VVhich by no meanes vve may extenuate) / To death, or to a vovve of ſingle life.
(RQ:Herbert Travaile)
(RQ:Prynne Soveraigne Power) If Kings cannot by Lavv change or extenuate Lavvs once approved vvithout the conſent of the Republike, much leſſe can they make and create nevv Lavvs; (..)
To degrade (someone); to detract from (someone's qualities, reputation, etc.); to depreciate, to disparage.
(RQ:Bacon Learning)
(RQ:Browne Hydriotaphia)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
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