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pacificate

pacificate verb: synonym of pacify.

Verb

pacificate (third-person singular simple present pacificates, present participle pacificating, simple past and past participle pacificated)

  1. (archaic, transitive, sometimes non-native speakers' English) Synonym of pacify.
    • Let me commend to readers this little scrap of Note; headed, ‘Methods of Pacificating Germany 1º. There is one ready method of pacificating Germany: That his Britannic Majesty should firmly button his breeches-pocket, “Not one sixpence more, Madam!”—and go home to his bed, if he find no business...1862, Thomas Carlyle, “Britannic Majesty Fights His Battle of Dettingen; and Becomes Supreme Jove of Germany, in a Manner”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume...
    • Shall we not conclude that Minos had by now succeeded in pacificating the Aegean and ridding it of pirates?1981, Hesperia, volume 50, Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 333
    Synonyms:
    pacify

Synonyms of pacificate

Forms of pacificate

third-person singular presentpacificates
present participlepacificating
past participlepacificated
pastpacificated

Origin of pacificate

Learned borrowing from Latin pācificāt-, the past participial stem of pācificō. Also sometimes an independent back-formation from pacification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Portuguese and Spanish pacificar and Italian pacificare.

Questions about pacificate

What does pacificate mean?
Pacificate means synonym of pacify.
What part of speech is pacificate?
Pacificate is a verb.
What is the past tense of pacificate?
The past tense of pacificate is pacificated.

Words near pacificate in the dictionary

  1. pacifical
  2. pacifical letters
  3. pacifically
  4. Pacifican
  5. Pacificans
  6. pacificate
  7. pacificated
  8. pacificates
  9. pacificating
  10. pacificatingly
  11. pacification

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