Pachytylus (pakitilus)

[NL. (Fieber, 1852), IMG:content-2109.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Characterized by peace or calm; calm; tranquil: as, a pacific state of things. The conversation became of that pacific kind which implies curiosity on one side and the power of satisfying it on the other. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , i. 11. 4. [ cap.] Appellative of the ocean lying between the west coast of America and the east coast of Asia: so called on account of the ex emption from violent tempests which early navigators supposed it to enjoy; hence, relat ing to or connected with that ocean. Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific - and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise- Silent, upon a peak in Darien. Keats , On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Pacific iron, an iron band round a lower yard-arm into which the boom-iron screws. = Syn, 1-3. Pacific, Peace, able, Peaceful, gentle, quiet, smooth, unruffled. Pacific, baking ard ing taken aldering to or to peace; peaceable, in a state of peace. pacificæ (pā-sif'i-sē), n. pl. [NL., fem. pl. of L. pacific us, peace-making, peaceful: see pacific.] 1. Same as pacifical letters. See pacifical.-2. A mi al or eucharistic litany near the beginning of Western liturgies, corresponding to the irenic a of Eastern offices. It fell into disuse about the ninth century, but the Kyrie still remains as a trace of it. In the Ambrosian liturgy, however, it continues to be used on Sun days in Lent, and on Holy Saturday a litany is still said at the beginning of the Roman ma . See litany.