v. Obs. [f. A- pref. 1 + SOFT v., SOFTEN.] To make soft, soften, mitigate.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (1840), 64. His olde gyltis bothe to a soft and swage. Ibid., Chron. Troy, III. xxvii. Whose herte might asoften nor aswage Nother prayer nor lamantacion.
