mollify : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mollify	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mollify
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mollify v cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" Synonym(s): pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism" Synonym(s): temper, season, mollify make less rigid or softer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mollify \Mol"lify\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mollified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mollifying}.] [F. mollifier, L. mollificare; mollis soft + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Enmollient}, {Moil}, v. t., and {-fy}.] 1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify* the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. --Spenser. 2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.