Pacified
[pæsə,faɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Pacify
Editor: Ozzie
Examples
- It has been said of Earl Durham, who pacified Canada at this time and established the present system of government, that he made a country and marred a career. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They got him pacified at last; and for five years arter that, he never even so much as peeped out o' the lodge gate. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Caroline was not yet pacified. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Indulgent Mr. Godfrey pacified her by taking a sheet of paper, and drawing out the declaration. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Thrasymachus is pacified, but the intrepid Glaucon insists on continuing the argument. Plato. The Republic.
- Haley stood there in very ill humor, having ridden hard the night before, and being not at all pacified by his ill success in recapturing his prey. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- One morning little Georgette had been more feverish and consequently more peevish; she was crying, and would not be pacified. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Fate would not so be pacified; nor would Providence sanction this shrinking sloth and cowardly indolence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Ozzie