单词 | pacificator |
释义 | pacificatorn. A person who or thing which pacificates someone or something; a peacemaker; a thing that soothes or subdues. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > [noun] > peacemaker peacemaker?a1425 make-peacea1513 pacifier1533 compounder1539 pacificator1539 truce-maker1552 ground-layer1603 stickler1615 peace-wright1718 peacemonger1808 honest broker1878 society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [noun] > one who peacemaker?a1425 make-peacea1513 pacificator1539 1539 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 203 His highnes remitteth the conclusyon of thair affaires with any Ambassadours or pacificatours there. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 50 He had in consideration the point of honour, in bearing the blessed person of a pacificator. 1750 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann (1834) II. 359 As he is a good pacificator..we may want his assistance at home before the end of the winter. 1799 C. Ludger Reconciliation ii. v. 42 Pacificators will seldom please both parties. 1833 J. Galt Gudewife in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 656/1 My mother..advised me to give it [sc. a baby] sweetened rum and water for a pacificator. 1841 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 347 Increase Mather was the Henry Clay of his day, the Great Pacificator, the author of the great Compromise Act. 1883 G. H. Calvert Brangonar ii. ii. 36 Commerce blithe, Wealth's wakeful nurse, Ready pacificator, threads again Her myriad sheltered paths. 1907 G. B. Shaw Let. 10 June (1972) II. 692 I..have just created a scandal among the German pacificators by informing the leading Viennese newspaper that I consider disarmament..absurd. 1968 Daily Tel. 13 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 43/4 Drink..is becoming the opium of the people: the great pacificator. 1997 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 3 Dec. 33 a Today's university sees itself not just as entertainer,..but as social pacificator and facilitator. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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