mollify
71mollified — (adj.) 1620s, pp. adjective from MOLLIFY (Cf. mollify) …
72soften — I. v. a. 1. Intenerate, melt, touch, make tender, make soft. 2. Assuage, appease, mitigate, balm, moderate, alleviate, soothe, mollify, quiet, calm, still, quell, allay, relieve, ease, abate, temper, qualify, attemper, dull, lessen, blunt, make… …
73melt — [OE] Melt goes back ultimately to an Indo European *meld , *mold , *mld , denoting ‘softness’, which also produced English mild and Latin mollis ‘soft’ (source of English mollify and mollusc). Its prehistoric Germanic descendant *melt , *malt… …
74mild — [OE] Mild goes back ultimately to Indo European *meld , *mold , *mld , which denoted ‘softness’ and also produced English melt and Latin mollis ‘soft’, source of English mollify and mollusc. From it was derived the Germanic adjective *milthjaz,… …
75mill — [OE] Mill is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to the Indo European base *mel , *mol , *ml , denoting ‘grind’. It includes meal ‘flour’, mollify, mollusc, mould ‘earth’, and (via the extended form *meld , *mold ) melt …
76mollusc — [18] Etymologically, a mollusc is a ‘soft’ creature. The word comes ultimately from Latin molluscus ‘soft’, a derivative of mollis ‘soft’. In classical times it was used as a noun for various ‘soft’ things, such as a sort of thinshelled nut and a …
77pacify — [pas′ə fī΄] vt. pacified, pacifying [ME pacifien < OFr pacefier < L pacificare < pax (gen. pacis), PEACE + facere, to make, DO1] 1. to make peaceful or calm; appease; tranquilize 2. a) to establish or secure peace in (a …
78mollification — noun 1. a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered • Derivationally related forms: ↑mollify • Hypernyms: ↑peaceableness, ↑peacefulness 2. the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined a wonderful skill in …
79Animal force — Force Force, n. [F. force, LL. forcia, fortia, fr. L. fortis strong. See {Fort}, n.] 1. Capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of… …
80Attemper — At*tem per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Attempered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Attempering}.] [OF. atemprer, fr. L. attemperare; ad + temperare to soften, temper. See {Temper}, and cf. {Attemperate}.] 1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to… …
