To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
To appease (someone).
Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.
From Middle French pacifier, from Latin pāx (“peace”) + faciō (“I do, make”). Cognate with pay and peacify.
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