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English Dictionary: placating	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for placating
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
placating adj intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech" Synonym(s): appeasing(a), placating, placative, placatory
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]Therefore is he always propitiated and placated.[b8] --Cudworth.