Pacify
['pæsɪfaɪ] or ['pæsə'fai]
Definition
(verb.) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location); 'The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia'.
(verb.) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; 'She managed to mollify the angry customer'.
Typist: Pansy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Conciliate, appease, give peace to, restore harmony to.[2]. Tranquillize, assuage, calm, still, quiet, lull, smooth, compose, moderate, hush, quell, lay, allay, soften, soothe, mollify.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Appease, conciliate, calm, still, soothe, quiet, tranquillize
ANT:Exasperate, agitate, excite, irritate, rouse, provoke
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Definition
v.t. to make peaceful: to appease: to bring back peace to: to calm; to soothe.—adjs. Pac′ifiable that may be pacified; Pacif′ic peacemaking: appeasing: peaceful: mild: tranquil.—n. the ocean between Asia and America so called by its discoverer Magellan because he sailed peacefully over it after weathering Cape Horn.—adj. Pacif′ical pacific (obs. except in phrase Letters pacifical letters recommending the bearer as one in peace and fellowship with the church—also Letters of peace Pacific).—adv. Pacif′ically.—v.t. Pacif′icāte to give peace to.—ns. Pacificā′tion the act of making peace esp. between parties at variance; Pacif′icātor Pac′ifier a peacemaker.—adj. Pacif′icātory tending to make peace.
Typist: Tyler
Unserious Contents or Definition
To endeavor to pacify suffering ones, denotes that you will be loved for your sweetness of disposition. To a young woman, this dream is one of promise of a devoted husband or friends. Pacifying the anger of others, denotes that you will labor for the advancement of others. If a lover dreams of soothing the jealous suspicions of his sweetheart, he will find that his love will be unfortunately placed.
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Examples
- It was the sum she had set aside to pacify her dress-maker--unless she should decide to use it as a sop to the jeweller. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Perhaps he of whom we say the last will be angry with us; can we pacify him without revealing the disorder of his mind? Plato. The Republic.
- Julia wavered; but was he only trying to soothe and pacify her, and make her overlook the previous affront? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- 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.
- I invented news of the most pacifying kind, assuring her that she was about to see her sister at my house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Some authorities think that the spread of Buddhist teaching from China also had a pacifying influence upon them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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