pacific
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- pacifick (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French pacifique.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
pacific (comparative more pacific, superlative most pacific)
- Calm, peaceful.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:calm
- Preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence.
- 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Fortunes of Nigel. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 277973588, page 3:
- The long-continued hostilities which had for centuries divided the south and the north divisions of the Island of Britain, had been happily terminated by the succession of the pacific James I, to the English crown.