Synonyms:
pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle
Meaning: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
Usage examples
Whatever ridicule, to a philosophical mind, may be thrown on pious ceremonies, it must be confessed that, during a very religious age, no institutions can be more advantageous to the rude multitude, and tend more to mollify that fierce and gloomy spirit of devotion to which they are subject.