calm, soften, pacify, relieve, assuage
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Mollify Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
(v. t.)
To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutTo assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
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.
2. to assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
mollify
v
1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "she managed to mollify her angry boss" [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, placate, gentle, gruntle]
2. make less rigid or softer
To soothe.
Gwlyddau = v. to mollify
Meddalau = v. to soften, to mollify
Mwytho = v. to puff; to mollify
1. To pacify; to soothe or calm in temper or disposition. 2. To reduce in intensity; to temper; to assuage. 3. To soften; to reduce the rigidity of; as, to mollify the ground.
EG:The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.
Verb
1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
(synonym) pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, placate, gentle, gruntle
(hypernym) calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still
(derivation) mollification
2. make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"
(synonym) temper, season
(hypernym) weaken
(derivation) mollification
3. make less rigid or softer
(hypernym) soften
Mollify Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In mathematics, mollifiers (also known as approximations to the identity) are smooth functions with special properties, used in distribution theory to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution. Intuitively, given a function which is rather irregular, by convolving it with a mollifier the function gets "mollified", that is, its sharp features are smoothed, while still remaining close to the original nonsmooth function. They are also known as Friedrichs mollifiers after Kurt Otto Friedrichs, the mathematician who introduced them.
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