"placify" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Compare pacify, placid, placate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "placifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "placifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "placified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "placified",
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        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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      "glosses": [
        "To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "peaceful",
          "peaceful"
        ],
        [
          "calm",
          "calm"
        ],
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          "placid",
          "placid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid."
      ],
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      ]
    },
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              82,
              91
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          "ref": "1869, “Foreign and Colonial News: Austro-Hungary”, in The Illustrated London News, page 582:",
          "text": "According to the last accounts from Cattaro, all the southern districts have been placified",
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        },
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              185,
              194
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          ],
          "ref": "1883 February 11, “Archbishop Tait”, in The Scottish Review, page 228:",
          "text": "The present writer has seen two letters of Bishop Wilberforce to Archbishop Longley, one speaking very severely of the Bishop of Cape Town's overbearing; the other chuckling at having ‘placified’ him, though pacifying, he thought, was out of any man's reach.",
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          "ref": "1929, Alan Patrick Herbert, Topsy, M.P., page 144:",
          "text": "and of course seeing the legions of the male massing more and more against me did not tend to placify the combatious little soul,",
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          "ref": "2017, Aaron Goff, Ruppert, Roids & Rings, page 302:",
          "text": "The money was meant to placify Sean and keep him from going forward with pressing charges or putting together a lawsuit against his attackers.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To calm (someone), to pacify."
      ],
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          "pacify",
          "pacify"
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        "(rare, transitive) To calm (someone), to pacify."
      ],
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  "word": "placify"
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  "etymology_text": "Compare pacify, placid, placate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "placifies",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "placifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
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        "To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid."
      ],
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        "(rare) To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid."
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          "ref": "1869, “Foreign and Colonial News: Austro-Hungary”, in The Illustrated London News, page 582:",
          "text": "According to the last accounts from Cattaro, all the southern districts have been placified",
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              185,
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          "ref": "1883 February 11, “Archbishop Tait”, in The Scottish Review, page 228:",
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          "ref": "1929, Alan Patrick Herbert, Topsy, M.P., page 144:",
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        },
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              23,
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          "ref": "2017, Aaron Goff, Ruppert, Roids & Rings, page 302:",
          "text": "The money was meant to placify Sean and keep him from going forward with pressing charges or putting together a lawsuit against his attackers.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To calm (someone), to pacify."
      ],
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        "(rare, transitive) To calm (someone), to pacify."
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  "word": "placify"
}