placable

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Able to be easily pacified

   Able to be easily pacified; quick to forgive.

   • […] For ſince I ſaught By Prayer th' offended Deitie to appeaſe, Kneel'd and before him humbl'd all my heart, Methought I ſaw him placable and mild, Bending his eare;
   • Essex, who was placable, as well as hasty and passionate, was soon appeased, and both received Raleigh into favour, and restored the other officers to their command.
2. 2

   Peaceable

   Peaceable; quiet.

   • to be fortunate without the grudge of enuy is the signe of a most quiet, peaceable, & placable man:
   • She waited the table with a heavy placable nonchalance, like a performing cow […]
3. 3

   Having the effect of pacifying, appeasing or pleasing.

   • The scripture is ful of places whiche teache these sacrifyces to be moste acceptable to god, & therfore often tyme they be called odours or sauours moste swete placable sacrifyces, acceptable offerynges to god.
   • And this agayne haue you done, you couered the altar of the Lord with teares, with weeping, and howling, ſo that I haue reſpect no more to ſacrifice, neither do I accept any placable thing at your hand.

The neighborhood

• neighborimplacable
• neighborplacability
• neighborplacableness
• neighborplacably