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t. [Fr. relever= to lift up, to relieve, from Lat. relevo =to lift up. re-again, and levo to lift; Sp. & Port. relevar; Ital. rilevare.] *1. To raise or lift again. 2. To remove, wholly or in part, as anything which pains, oppre es, weighs down, or grieves; to alleviate, to mitigate, to lighten, to a uage, to le en; as, to relieve pain, to relieve want. 3. To free, wholly or in part, from anything which pains, oppre es, weighs down, or grieves; to afford relief to; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to help, to case, to succor. "She calls them near, and with affection sweet Alternately relieves relieves their weary feet.' Words worth: Evening Walk. 4. To ease or deliver from any burden, wrong, oppre ion, or injustice, by legal or legislative proce or interposition; to right by law. 5. To release from any post, station, task, or duty, by the substitution of another person or party; to put another in the place of, or to take the place of in the performance of any duty, task, . (Shakespeare: Hamlet , i. 1.) 6. To obviate monotony in; to prevent from being tedious, monotonous, or tiresome by the introduction of some variety. "The poet must not encumber his poem with too much busine ; but sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection."- Add is on . 7. To give mutual a istance to; to support. "Parallels, or like relations, alternately relieve each other; when neither will pa asunder, yet are they plausible together." - Browne . (Todd.) 8. To make to seem to rise; to give conspicuous ne or prominence to; to set off by contrast; to give the appearance of prominence or projection to, by the juxtaposition of some contrast. [RELIEF, II. 6,7.1 *rě-liēve-měnt, s. [Eng. relieve; -ment.] The act of relieving; the state of being relieved; relief. "With other relievements of their doleances."- Daniel : Hist. Eng ., p. 45.