749; smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l’eau dans son vin[Fr].
     go out like a lamb, “roar you as gently as any sucking dove,”
[Midsummer-Night’s Dream]. 
     Adj. moderate; lenient &c. 740; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober,
temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered &c. v.; calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.
     unexciting, unirritating[obs3]; soft, bland, oily, demulcent,
lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic &c. 683; sedative; antiorgastic[obs3], anaphrodisiac[obs3].
     mild as mother’s milk; milk and water. 
     Adv. moderately &c. adj.; gingerly; piano; under easy sail, at half
speed; within bounds, within compass; in reason. 
     Phr. est modue in rebus[obs3]; pour oil on troubled waters.

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     #175.  Influence.—­ N. influence; importance &c. 642; weight, pressure,
preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy[obs3]; ascendency[obs3]; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull*; authority &c.737; capability &c. (power) 157; effect &c. 154; interest.
     synergy (cooperation) 709.
     footing; purchase &c. (support) 215; play, leverage, vantage ground.
     tower of strength, host in himself; protection, patronage, auspices. 
     V. have -influence &c. n.; be -influential &c. adj.; carry weight,
weigh, tell; have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work upon; take root, take hold; strike root in.
     run through, pervade; prevail, dominate, predominate; out weigh, over
weigh; over-ride, over-bear; gain head; rage; be -rife &c. adj.; spread like wildfire; have the upper hand, get the upper hand, gain the upper hand, have full play, get full play, gain full play.
     be recognized, be listened to; make one’s voice heard, gain a hearing;
play a part, play a leading part, play a leading part in; take the lead, pull the strings; turn the scale, throw one’s weight into the scale; set the fashion, lead the dance. 
     Adj. influential, effective; important &c. 642; weighty; prevailing
&c. v.; prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the ascendant, hegemonical[obs3]. 
     Adv. with telling effect. 
     Phr. tel maure tel valet[Fr].

     #175a.  Absence of Influence.—­ N. impotence &c. 158; powerlessness;
inertness &c. 172; irrelevancy &c. 10. 
     V. have no -influence &c. 175. 
     Adj. uninfluential[obs3], ineffective; inconsequential, nugatory;
unconducing, unconducive, unconducting to[obs3]; powerless &c. 158; irrelevant &c. 10.

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