Pacifying

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pacify \Pac"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pacified}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Pacifying}.] [F. pacifier, L. pacificare; pax, pacis,
     peace + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Peace}, and {-fy}.]
     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. "Pray ye, pacify yourself."
     --Shak.
  
     Syn: lenify, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle,
          gruntle.
          [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
  
                To pacify and settle those countries. --Bacon.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  pacifying \pacifying\ adj.
     freeing from fear and anxiety.
  
     Syn: assuasive, calming, soothing.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pacifying
       adj : freeing from fear and anxiety [syn: {assuasive}, {calming},
             {soothing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "pacifying":
     appeasing, calming, conciliatory, cradling, dreamy, drowsy,
     gentling, hushing, irenic, lulling, mollifying, pacific,
     pacificatory, placative, placatory, propitiative, propitiatory,
     quietening, reconciliatory, restful, rocking, soothful, soothing,
     stilling, tranquilizing