pacative
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pacative (comparative more pacative, superlative most pacative)
- (formal) Relating to pacation.
- 1845, Thomas Manton, One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on the Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm, volume 1, page 219:
- 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).