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1624 W. Ingpen Secrets of Numbers xix. 94 It [sc. mvsicall harmony] mitigateth anger, letificateth those that bee sad, pacificateth such as are at discord.

1775 E. Stiles Let. 10 Apr. in R. Price Corr. (1983) I. 199 Two Armies..pacificated all by agreeing to share in equal Liberty, the Roman Blood accepting the Italian in Deditione Civitatis.

1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 388 He would now pacificate Roncal and the vallies of Aragon.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiv. v. 699 There is one ready method of pacificating Germany.

1912 W. Whitten Londoner's London 229 But after O'Connell's death he was unable to ‘pacificate’ his own heart and the world about him.

1981 Hesperia 50 323 Shall we not conclude that Minos had by now succeeded in pacificating the Aegean and ridding it of pirates?

1646 Unhappy Game at Sc. & Eng. 22 What is this other then to pacificate with him without their joynt advice and consent?

1608 C. Cornwallis Let. 19 Apr. in Letter-bk. (BL MS Cotton Vesp. C XI) 479 The Pacificateinge ffryer, is once agayne comme hether, to trye his ffortune, and is gone to the K[ing]. to Araniues.

1773 E. de Franchetti Granny's Predict. 29 A moment's reflection about your latter end will prove an excellent pacificating remedy for horrid imprecations.

1849 N. Amer. Rev. July 79 The fruits of their pacificating policy were seen in the seizure of the Argentine squadron and other acts of direct hostility.

1922 Boston Sunday Post 12 Feb. 37/4 There was nothing for it but that the whole assemblage must cool its heels while pacificating members rushed after and argued and implored them until they returned!

1982 W. C. Davis Deep Waters of Proud x. 151 Though this crisis calmed through diplomacy, through the pacificating influence of Adams and Seward, more problems would come to replace it.

1742 M. Morgan Life Oliver Cromwell 249 Many of their ships were secur'd by the English contrary to the act of pacificating in the large treaty.

1936 Amer. Mercury Feb. 214/2 The enmities that died among the champagne bottles on his tables were reputedly without number, for he was always at his pacificating.

2010 K. A. Jacob King of Lobby iv. 81 In one instance of ‘pacificating’, some of his Republican friends asked him [sc. Sam Ward] to step in as a favor and heal the breech between two important party men.