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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Mollify \Mol"li*fy\, 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.
[1913 Webster]
With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts.
--Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited
feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Mollify \Mol"li*fy\, 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.
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
mollifying
vb.
(present participle of en mollify nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
mollifying
vb.
(present participle of en mollify nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
mollifying
vb.
(present participle of en mollify nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
mollifying
vb.
(present participle of en mollify nocat=1)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
mollifying
Engelska a.
(avledning en mollify ordform=prespart)
Engelska vb.
(böjning en verb mollify)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Mollifying /mˈɒlɪfˌaɪɪŋ/
التهدئة
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mollifying /mˈɒlɪfˌaɪɪŋ/
besänftigend, beschwichtigend
see: mollify sb., mollified, mollifies, mollified
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mollifying /mˈɒlɪfˌaɪɪŋ/
mäßigend, mildernd
see: mollify sth., mollified
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "mollifying":
appeasing, calming, conciliatory, cradling, demulcent, dreamy,
drowsy, easing, emollient, gentling, hushing, irenic, loosening,
lulling, pacific, pacificatory, pacifying, placative, placatory,
propitiative, propitiatory, quietening, reconciliatory, relaxing,
restful, rocking, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling,
subduing, tranquilizing
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
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