单词 | placatory |
释义 | placatory, a.|pləˈkeɪtərɪ, ˈpleɪkətərɪ, ˈplæk-| [ad. L. plācātōri-us appeasing, propitiatory (Tert.), f. plācāre to appease: see -ory.] Tending or calculated to placate or appease; conciliatory; propitiatory.
a1640Jackson Creed xi. xxxix. §5 Some gods the heathens honoured with placatory sacrifices. 1799–1805S. Turner Anglo-Sax. (1830) I. ii. App. iii. 132 [He] made a placatory offering of two wax lights and nine pieces of money. 1862Lytton Str. Story I. 110 A reply which seemed..both dignified and placatory. |

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