To appease.
1678. Therefore is He always Propitiated and Placated both First and Last.—Cudworth, ‘Intellectual System, i. 476. (N.E.D.)
1861. The outside indications seemed to favor the adoption of a plan of adjustment which should at least placate the remaining loyal States; but, the indisposition of the Border Slave State delegates to include the Seceded States in the compromise served to foreshadow but a partial settlement at most.—O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. 360.
1862. [No one can] cite a single instance where a rebel has been placated … because you dealt leniently [with him].—Mr. B. F. Wade of Ohio, U.S. Senate, June 25: Cong. Globe, p. 2930/3.
1907. The tenderness of an alleged orthodoxy would have to be placated.—Church Standard, Philadelphia, Oct. 19.
1910. There has been reported in both parties a certain desire to “placate” Hearst, and possibly to win the support of his newspapers.—N.Y. Evening Post, Sept. 29.
