The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
pacifying \pacifying\ adj.
freeing from fear and anxiety.
Syn: assuasive, calming, soothing.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pacify \Pac"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pacified; p. pr. & vb.
n. Pacifying.] [F. pacifier, L. pacificare; pax, pacis,
peace + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Peace, and -fy.]
To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to
quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of;
to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify
pride, appetite, or importunity. "Pray ye, pacify yourself."
--Shak.
Syn: lenify, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle,
gruntle.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
To pacify and settle those countries. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "pacifying":
appeasing, calming, conciliatory, cradling, dreamy, drowsy,
gentling, hushing, irenic, lulling, mollifying, pacific,
pacificatory, placative, placatory, propitiative, propitiatory,
quietening, reconciliatory, restful, rocking, soothful, soothing,
stilling, tranquilizing