Meaning of placify | Babel Free
Definitions
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To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid. rare
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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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.