Meanings
adjectivepacative (comparative more pacative, superlative most pacative)
comparative more pacative · superlative most pacative
- formalRelating to pacation.
Prayer hath a pacative virtue; as, Hannah "prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore;" and mark the event, "the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad," &c. (1 Sam. i. 18).
1845, Thomas Manton, One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on the Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm, volume 1, page 219
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