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ADJ.
mild
adj
Able to be easily pacified; quick to forgive.
1577, Meredith Hanmer (translator), The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, London, The Seventh Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina, Chapter 17, […] after that the deuine and celestiall grace of God behelde vs with a placable and mercifull countenance, then our princes, euen they which heretofore warred against vs, after a wonderfull manner chaunged their opinion […]
[…] For ſince I ſaught By Prayer th' offended Deitie to appeaſe, Kneel'd and before him humbl'd all my heart, Methought I ſaw him placable and mild, Bending his eare;
Peaceable; quiet.
to be fortunate without the grudge of enuy is the signe of a most quiet, peaceable, & placable man:
1799, Isaac D’Israeli, “Mejnoun and Leila, the Arabian Petrarch and Laura,” Part 3 in Romances, London: Cadell and Davies et al., p. 115, I care not for the honour of my friends, and am placable to the insult of an enemy. What is a man, alike incapable of friendship or of enmity?
Having the effect of pacifying, appeasing or pleasing.
The scripture is ful of places whiche teache these sacrifyces to be moste acceptable to god, & therfore often tyme they be called odours or sauours moste swete placable sacrifyces, acceptable offerynges to god.
And that euery thyng be desent & sayre to the eye, nat onely within the precyncte of the place appoynted to buylde a mansyon or a house to se the commodites aboute it, but also it may be placable to the eyes of all men to se & to beholde when they be a good dystaunce of from the place, that it do stande commodyously.
1577, Meredith Hanmer (translator), The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, London, The Seventh Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Eusebius Pamphilus
Wiktionary[…] For ſince I ſaught By Prayer th' offended Deitie to appeaſe, Kneel'd and before him humbl'd all my heart, Methought I ſaw him placable and mild, Bending his eare;
WiktionaryEssex, who was placable, as well as hasty and passionate, was soon appeased, and both received Raleigh into favour, and restored the other officers to their command.
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In some senses, placable is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.