Placating

2 definitions found

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

  Placate \Pla"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Placated}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Placating}.] [L. placatus, p. p. of placare to placate,
     akin to placere to please. See {Please}.]
     To appease; to pacify; to concilate. "Therefore is he always
     propitiated and placated." --Cudworth.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  placating
       adj : tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or
             granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the
             Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures";
             "an astonishingly placatory speech" [syn: {appeasing(a)},
              {placative}, {placatory}]