mollified, ppl. a.
(ˈmɒlɪfaɪd)
[f. mollify v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.: † Softened, rendered soft or supple (obs.); † rendered less severe; mitigated (obs.); appeased, conciliated.
| 1696 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Chirurg. 37/1 The fleshe and all the other mollifyed parts of the ioyncte. 1682 Dryden Relig. Laici Pref., Wks. (Globe) 187 Those texts may receive a kinder and more mollified interpretation. 1764 Harmer Observ. xii. i. 35 [When] the sacred writer..says ægypt has no rain he must be understood in the same mollified sense that Maillet, or rather the Abbot Muscrier, puts upon Pliny. 1849 Thackeray Pendennis I. xxix. 284 ‘Boys will be boys’, the mollified uncle thought to himself. 1860 Holland Miss Gilbert x, ‘We are disappointed here again, Fanny’, said the doctor with a mollified tone. |
Hence ˈmollifiedly adv.
| 1626 W. Fenner Hidden Manna (1652) 72 The bloud of Christ is of a sufficient value to redeeme them all à toto: Secondly, mollifiedly, à tanto. |