placify

Definitions

1. To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid.
   rare
2. To calm (someone), to pacify.
   rare, transitive

Examples

“According to the last⟳ accounts from Cattaro, all the southern districts have⟳ been placified”

“The present⟳ writer has seen two letters of Bishop Wilberforce to Archbishop Longley, one speaking very severely of the Bishop of Cape Town's overbearing; the other chuckling at having ‘placified’ him, though pacifying, he thought, was out of any man's reach⟳.”

“and of course seeing the legions of the male massing more and more against me did not tend⟳ to placify the combatious little soul,”

“The money was meant to placify Sean and keep⟳ him from going forward⟳ with pressing charges or putting together a lawsuit against his attackers.”

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