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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pla·cate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Placated p. pr. & vb. n. Placating.]  To appease; to pacify; to concilate. “Therefore is he always propitiated and placated.”
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 placating
      adj : tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or
            granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the
            Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures";
            "an astonishingly placatory speech" [syn: appeasing(a),
             placative, placatory]