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A pea. [Obs.] "A peose." "Bread . . . of beans and of peses." Piers Plowman.

to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.

One who appeases; a pacifier.

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

To pay; to satisfy or appease. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable. -- Ap*peas"a*ble*ness, n.

Tending to appease.

To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] Chaucer.

in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her th…

To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. [Obs.] I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak.

To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. Philips.

ity; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation. Hallam.

To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please. Do not content yourselves with obscure and confused ideas, where clearer are to be attained. I. Watts. Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them. Mark xv. 15.

rded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment. What pease will be given To us enslaved, but custody severe, And stripes and arbitrary punishment Milton.

To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath. [Obs.] Spenser.

h. [R.] But say, what mean those colored streaks in heaven Distended as the brow of God appeased Milton.

to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade. It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat. Rogers.

Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease. Mortimer.

To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. With thou, then, Hush my cares Otway. And hush'd my deepest grief of all. Tennyson. To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." Pope.