appease

t. [Fr. apaiser; O. Fr. apaisier, apai ier; Prov. apasiar; from Lat. ad = to, and paco to appease, quiet.] [PEACE.] Properly, to make peace where agitation before existed; as *1. To quiet or calm the agitated deep. "By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, and planteth islands therein."- Ecclus , xliii. 23. 2. To dispel anger or hatred, and tranquillise the heart previously perturbed by one or both of these pa ions; to cause one to cease complaining. I will appease him with the present that goeth before me." Gen. xxxii. 20. "Now then your plaint appease ." Spenser: F. Q., L. iii. 29. Formerly it was sometimes used reflex ively. "And Tullius saith: Ther is no thing so commendable in a gret lord, as whan he is debonaire deb on. and meeke, and appesith him lightly."-Chaucer: Melibeus. 3. To tranquillise the conscience and make it cease from troubling. IMG:content-0634.png:[blocks in formation] Having the power or the tendency to appease; pacificatory, tranquillising, soothing. ( Web ster.)