mitificare

mitificare [CL] 1 to make (natural phenomenon) less severe. 786 ille ‥ qui ~at fluctus, exaudita vestra deprecatione, ~avit cerula freta Alcuin Ep. 3 p. 20. 2 to make (person or his disposition) less enraged. saevos mitificans, virtutis et omina monstrans Frith. 1374; atqui crebro furoribus excitatus mollescit animus interpolatione ~atus E. Thrip. Collect. Stories 215.