placify

present singular third person placifies · participle present placifying · participle past placified · past placified

1. rareTo create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid.
2. raretransitiveTo calm (someone), to pacify.

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

   1869, “Foreign and Colonial News: Austro-Hungary”, in The Illustrated London News, page 582

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   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.

   1883 February 28, “Archbishop Tait”, in The Scottish Review, page 228

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

   1929, Alan Patrick Herbert, Topsy, M.P., page 144

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

   2017, Aaron Goff, Ruppert, Roids & Rings, page 302