placify

English

Etymology

Compare pacify, placid.

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Verb

placify (third-person singular simple present placifies, present participle placifying, simple past and past participle placified)

1. (rare) To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid.
2. (rare, transitive) To calm (someone), to pacify.
   • 1869, “Foreign and Colonial News: Austro-Hungary”, in The Illustrated London News‎^[1], page 582:

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

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

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

   • 2017, Aaron Goff, Ruppert, Roids & Rings‎^[2], page 302:

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

3. To put [someone] in their place, at times brutally