Mollify /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Mollified; p. pr. & vb. n. Mollifying

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.