mollify
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1. trans. To render soft or supple; to make tender; to reduce the
hardness of. Also absol. Now rare.

    {dag}b. to mollify the fist (? nonce-use): a jocular substitution
for `to grease the palm'.

    {dag}c. to mollify the belly: to relax the bowels. Obs.

    {dag}d. intr. To become soft or tender. Obs.

    2. trans. To soften in temper or disposition; to allay the anger or
indignation of; to render less obdurate; to calm, pacify, or appease.
From the 15th to the 17th c. very common in the phrase {dag}to mollify
(one's) heart. Obs.

    {dag}b. intr. To become softened in temper or disposition; to grow
more kindly or genial; to relax one's severity, to become less angry or
obdurate, to relent. Obs.

    {dag}3. To enervate, enfeeble. Obs.

    {dag}4. To abate the violence or intensity of (passions; also heat,
cold, tempests, etc.); to relieve (care). Obs.

    5. To lessen the harshness or severity of (expressions, laws, etc.);
abate the rigour of (demands); also, to represent in favourable terms,
to euphemize. Now rare.

    {dag}6. To impart a tender beauty to. Obs. or nonce-use.