pacifycacion
English
Etymology
From Middle English pacifycacion.
Noun
pacifycacion (plural pacifycacions)
- Archaic form of pacification
- 1524, State Papers: Published under the Authority of His Majesty's Commission[1], J. Murray, published 1831:
- Ye shal also perceyve what I write unto the Queue of Scottes, aswell touching the reconsiliacion of the said Erie unto her favour, as also for the pacifycacion of the variances depending bitween hym and thErle of Arayn; not doubting but whan ye shall have red the copies of the said letters and articles, ye woll thinke this the most direct and sure waye to provide for all chaunces and daungiers, that may ensue by the instabilitie of the Counsaillours and noble men being in Scotland
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French pacification, from Latin pacificatio.
Noun
pacifycacion (plural pacifycacions)
- pacification
- 1490, William Caxton, Matthew Tewart Culley, Frederick James Furnivall, Jean Jacques Salverda de Grave, chapter XXII, in Caxton's Eneydos, 1490[2], N. Trübner & Co., page 77, line 12:
- that the swete wyndes shalle putte hemselfe yp in pacifycacion of the see pestilencyall
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Descendants
- English: pacifycacion
References
- “pacificāciǒun”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- The Oxford English Dictionary (1933), The Oxford English Dictionary[3], page 360