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mollify

English

Alternative forms

  • mollifie

Etymology

From Middle English mollifien, from Late Latin mollific?, from Latin mollis (soft).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?m?l?fa?/

Verb

mollify (third-person singular simple present mollifies, present participle mollifying, simple past and past participle mollified)

  1. To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.
    • 1893, Henry George, The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII, p. 104:
      All that charity can do where injustice exists is here and there to somewhat mollify the effects of injustice.
    • 1997, A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta's Deficit Elimination Program, p. 408:
      The draft Charter School Handbook issued in November 1994 sought to mollify concerns over teacher quality, if not ATA membership, by requiring teacher certification.
  2. To appease (anger), pacify, gain the good will of.
    • 1867, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, chapter 2:
      Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
    • 1916, L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz, chapter 5:
      The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.
    • 2016 January 31, "Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?," Vanity Fair (retrieved 21 January 2016):
      But these answers did not mollify Grassley. Specifically, he objected to Abedin’s becoming an S.G.E., because he believed she provided no irreplaceable expertise and therefore her designation as one had violated Congress’s intent when it created the program, in 1962.
  3. To soften; to make tender
    • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
      "Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire."
    • 1724, William Burkitt, Expository Notes, with Practical Observations on the New Testament, p. 102:
      By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire …

Synonyms

  • (to ease a burden): assuage, calm, comfort, mitigate, soothe
  • (to appease): appease, conciliate, pacify, placate, propitiate, satisfy
  • (to soften): soften, soften up, tenderize, temper, anneal, deharden, distemper
  • See also Thesaurus:calm

Related terms

  • emollient
  • mollification

Translations

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moderate

English

Etymology

From Middle English moderat, from Latin moder?tus, perfect active participle of moderor (regulate, restrain, moderate), from moder-, modes-, a stem appearing also in modestus (moderate, discreet, modest), from modus (measure); see mode and modest.

Pronunciation

  • Adjective, noun:
    • (UK): IPA(key): /?m?d???t/
    • (US): enPR: mäd'?r-?t, IPA(key): /?m?d???t/
  • Verb:
    • (UK): IPA(key): /?m?d??e?t/
    • (US): enPR: mäd'?-r?t, IPA(key): /?m?d??e?t/

Adjective

moderate (comparative more moderate, superlative most moderate)

  1. Not excessive; acting in moderation
    moderate language
    a moderate Calvinist
    travelling at a moderate speed
    • 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
      A number of moderate members managed [] to obtain a majority in a thin house.
  2. Mediocre
  3. Average priced; standard-deal
  4. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
    a moderate winter
    • 1859, Arthur Hugh Clough, Life of Sertorius
      These are called the Islands of the Blest; rains fall there seldom, and in moderate showers, but for the most part they have gentle breezes, bringing along with them soft dews
  5. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:moderate
  • See also Thesaurus:intermediate

Derived terms

  • moderately
  • moderateness

Translations

Noun

moderate (plural moderates)

  1. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
    While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so
    The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.
  2. (Christianity, historical) One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.

Translations

Verb

moderate (third-person singular simple present moderates, present participle moderating, simple past and past participle moderated)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something)
    to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.
    • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments
      By its astringent Quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm Water.
    • 2000, Paul G. Coleman, Positron Beams and Their Applications (page 309)
      This leaves two strategies to increase the current in a positron beam. First is to provide a stronger positron source and second is to develop a more efficient method to moderate the source positrons into a monoenergetic beam.
      To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive.
  2. (intransitive) To become less excessive
  3. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator
    to moderate a synod
  4. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise
  5. (transitive, physics) To supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission).
    a graphite-moderated reactor

Synonyms

  • (reduce excesses): temperate
  • (preside): arbitrate, chair

Derived terms

  • moderation
  • moderating

Related terms

  • modal
  • modality
  • mode
  • model
  • moderator
  • module

Translations

References

  • moderate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • moderate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

moderate

  1. inflection of moderat:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Verb

moderate

  1. inflection of moderare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative
  2. feminine plural of moderato

Anagrams

  • dateremo

Latin

Verb

moder?te

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of moder?

References

  • moderate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • moderate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

moderate

  1. definite singular of moderat
  2. plural of moderat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

moderate

  1. definite singular of moderat
  2. plural of moderat

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