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To assuage; to soften; to Bacon. Dryden.

To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.

To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

To make wet or moist. [R.]

To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified. Grew.

To make malign or malignant. [R.] "A strong faith malignified." Southey.

To pity. [Obs.] Spenser.

To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed. [R.]

To make verse. [R.] Skelton.

To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract.

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. Spenser.

subjection; to abase; to humble. With fasting mortified, worn out with tears. Harte. Mortify thy learned lust. Prior. Mortify, rherefore, your members which are upon the earth. Col. iii. 5.

Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.

In a mortifying manner.

To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy. Hall (1646).

To cleanse. [Obs.]

To prepare for defense; to fortify. [Obs.]

To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

To make neat. [Obs.] olland.