or a PALLIATIVE Cure, in medicine, is when, in desperate and incurable diseases, after predicting the fatal event, the physician prescribes some remedies for mitigating the pain or some other urgent symptoms, as in ulcerated cancers, or cancerous fistulas, and the like.

PALLIO Cooperire. It was an ancient custom, where children were born out of lawful wedlock, and their parents were afterwards married, that those children, together with the father and mother, should stand pallio cooperiti, under a cloth, while the marriage was solemnizing; which was a kind of adoption, and had the effect of a legitimation. Thus Robert Grofthead, the famous bishop of Lincoln, in one of his letters, says: In signum legitimationis, nati ante matrimonium confecerunt poni sub pallio super parentes eorum extento, in matrimonii solemnizatione.

Selden, in his notes on Fleta, adds, that the children of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, by Catharine Swinford, though legitimated by act of parliament, yet were covered with the pall when their parents were married.