Appeasable
to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe:
to appease an angry king.
to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage:
The fruit appeased his hunger.
to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.
Historical Examples
It is the tumult of a mob, appeasable only by speedier bloodshed.
Spanish Vistas George Parsons Lathrop
Indeed, he was of an appeasable nature, and on the whole a very good fellow.
The House by the Church-Yard J. Sheridan Le Fanu
verb (transitive)
to calm, pacify, or soothe, esp by acceding to the demands of
to satisfy or quell (an appetite or thirst, etc)
adj.
1540s; see appease + -able. Related: Appeasably.
v.
c.1300 “to reconcile,” from Anglo-French apeser, Old French apaisier “to pacify, make peace, appease, be reconciled, placate” (12c.), from the phrase a paisier “bring to peace,” from a “to” (see ad-) + pais, from Latin pacem (nominative pax) “peace” (see peace). Related: Appeased; appeasing.
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