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▪ I. † ˈplacate, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. plācāt-us appeased, pa. pple. of plācāre: see next.]
Composed; placid.
1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 18 ii. v. (1669) 446/2 When are you more placate and serene? 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 138 Animo tam tranquillo.., with as placate, serene and tranquil a mind.
▪ II. placate, v.|ˈpleɪkeɪt, ˈplækeɪt, pləˈkeɪt|
[f. L. plācāt-, ppl. stem of plācāre to appease: see -ate3.]
trans. To render friendly or favourable (one who is hostile or offended); to pacify, conciliate: to propitiate.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §31. 476 Therefore is He always Propitiated and Placated both First and Last. 1791J. Townsend Journ. Spain (1792) III. 14 Solicitous to placate an offended deity. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. vi. (1852) 170 Such satisfaction is not really placating anger, not appeasing a personal passion. 1868Edwards Ralegh I. xiii. 249 Nottingham..wrote earnestly to Essex, trying to placate him. 1894Knight Garrick vi. 97 A victory so complete..failed to placate the indignant young actress.
Hence placated ppl. a.; also placater (U.S.), one who placates.
1735D. Forbes Th. Relig. (1747) 10 To approach, and rely on the protection and beneficence of a placated Deity. 1867Ludlow Little Briggs & I 223 The stern but placated bosoms of Barker and Moodle. 1894Nation (N.Y.) 22 Mar. 205/2 What the Americans call a ‘placater’. He ‘placates’ opposing interests as Thurlow Weed used to do. 189419th Cent. Oct. 495 The successful placater brings into line men who are apparently irreconcilable. |