pacific• Since few questioned such a view, those of pacificleanings met with little sympathy.• Do we want to create a restlessmood, or a calm, pacific one?• The transition from a hostile to a pacific relationship between the houses of Plantagenet and Capet took place between 1224 and 1259.• Nesselrode, his foreignminister, remained pacific to the end.
Originpacific
(1500-1600)Frenchpacifique, from Latinpacificus, from pax; → PEACE