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placating

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [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}]




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