Definition of Placate. Meaning of Placate. Synonyms of Placate

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Definition of Placate

Placate
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.
Placate
Placate Plac"ate, n. Same as Placard, 4 & 5.

Meaning of Placate from wikipedia

- an article on "placate", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "placate" You can also: Search for Placate in Wikipedia to...
- Acacian schism, started in 484 by Acacius of Constantinople's efforts to placate the Monophysites. His efforts to resolve this schism were successful, and...
- platitude that is trite or unoriginal. It can be intended to soothe or placate; it can suggest insincerity or a lack of originality in the speaker. Bromide...
- cultures are unknown but it is often thought to have been performed to placate certain gods. Although there is no incontrovertible evidence of child sacrifice...
- each hire a Santa, who don't get along and try to outdo each other. To placate her mother, a woman asks Ace to pose as her fiancé. A has-been comic finds...
- resemble the old and eccentric-looking Jenny at that age. Jan's doubt is placated when she meets Aunt Jenny, a fun-loving Auntie Mame-type, and realizes...
- lungshot from a ricocheting bullet fired by police, who were trying to placate a crowd of protesters at Roter Ochse prison. SED officials used his death...
- text of Sholem Aleichem's play, but emphasising the class conflict to placate the Soviet censor, for whom otherwise a Jewish topic may have proved problematic...
- party, would not nationalize industry, and would honor the rule of law to placate market alarmism, adding that he would lead the party instead of Cerrón...
- the person or party who has made the offer. It can also be money paid to placate a disgruntled adversary who may disclose embarr****ing information, even...