[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mollify \mol"lify\, 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.
      1913 webster

            with sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. to assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited
      feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
      1913 webster
see also:
mollified mollifying enmollient moil -fy 

[2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

32 moby thesaurus words for "mollifying":
   appeasing, calming, conciliatory, cradling, demulcent, dreamy,
   drowsy, easing, emollient, gentling, hushing, irenic, loosening,
   lulling, pacific, pacificatory, pacifying, placative, placatory,
   propitiative, propitiatory, quietening, reconciliatory, relaxing,
   restful, rocking, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling,
   subduing, tranquilizing

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