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softened, ppl. a.|sɒf(ə)nd, -ɔː-|
[f. soften v.]
1. Made or rendered physically soft or yielding.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme 95 Mixing..the powder of a softned bricke in her meate. 1688Boyle Final Causes iv. 191 To..make a Second Attrition of their already much Softned Aliments. 1830Knox Beclard's Anat. 340 The softened nervous substance is sometimes at the point of being liquid. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 871 The softened central area of the tumour.
b. Characterized by softening or softness.
1839–47Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 720 b, The softened condition of the brain is doubtless due to a similar cause. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xv. 183 Certain phenomena..indicate a softened state of the heart.
2. Rendered soft or softer, in other senses.
1716Pope Iliad vi. 622 The soften'd chief..dried the falling drops, and thus pursued. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxii, Then..her softened thoughts returned to Valancourt. Ibid. xxxviii, The softened music, floating at a distance, soothed her melancholy mind. 1829Scott Rob Roy Introd., A softened account of this anecdote. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxvii, ‘Get up, child,’ said Miss Ophelia in a softened voice. 1873Symonds Greek Poets xii. 404 Its pearly greys and softened greens. 1894M. Dyan Man's Keeping (1899) 311 She..saw that new softened look in his eyes. |