pacific

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  1. adjective Tending to diminish or put an end to conflict; appeasing.
  2. adjective Of a peaceful nature; tranquil.

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  • Stayed sober, pacific, and outwardly smiling, no matter how ungrateful my employers, until I finally won recognition as the best of all possible cousins. —  The Luxembourg Run
  • John Ridge, a chief of note of the Cherokees West, states, that this meeting is entirely pacific--entirely deliberative--and by no means of a hostile character, as has been falsely reported. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • The an essay by Epeli Hau'ofa tha argued against the commonly held assumption that the pacific islands were isolated communities held apart by massive oceans. —  Global Voices Online
  • Cialis viagra levitra effects order combining cialis and viagraviagra articles amp storieslevitra pacific islanders in communication —  Zeus News
  • Islands in the pacific are already going under, massive amounts of Artic and Antartic ice have already melted. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
 

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  1. French pacifique, from Old French pacifice, from Latin pācificus : pāx, pāc-, peace; see pag- in Indo-European roots + -ficus, -fic.

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  1. from French pacifique = Spanish pacifico = Portuguese Italian pacifico, from Latin pacificus, peacemaking, peaceful, from pax (pac-), peace (see peace), + facere, make. Cf. pacify.
 

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/pəˈsɪfɪk/
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