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placify

placify verb: to create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid.

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.
    • According to the last accounts from Cattaro, all the southern districts have been placified1869, “Foreign and Colonial News: Austro-Hungary”, in The Illustrated London News, page 582
    • The present writer has seen two letters of Bishop Wilberforce to Archbishop Longley, one speaking very severely of the Bishop of Cape Town's overbearing; the other chuckling at having ‘placified’ him, though pacifying, he thought, was out of any man's reach.1883 February, “Archbishop Tait”, in The Scottish Review, page 228

Examples of placify in a sentence

  • and of course seeing the legions of the male massing more and more against me did not tend to placify the combatious little soul,1929, Alan Patrick Herbert, Topsy, M.P., page 144:
  • The money was meant to placify Sean and keep him from going forward with pressing charges or putting together a lawsuit against his attackers.2017, Aaron Goff, Ruppert, Roids & Rings, page 302:

Forms of placify

third-person singular presentplacifies
present participleplacifying
past participleplacified
pastplacified

Origin of placify

Compare pacify, placid, placate.

Questions about placify

What does placify mean?
Placify means to create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid.
How do you use placify in a sentence?
and of course seeing the legions of the male massing more and more against me did not tend to placify the combatious little soul,
What part of speech is placify?
Placify is a verb.
What is the past tense of placify?
The past tense of placify is placified.

Words near placify in the dictionary

  1. placidness
  2. Placidyl
  3. Placidyls
  4. placified
  5. placifies
  6. placify
  7. placifying
  8. Placilla
  9. placing
  10. placing on a pedestal
  11. placing one's cards on the table

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