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a. [ L. placabilis, fr. placare to quiet, pacify: cf. F. placable. See Placate. ] Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Methought I saw him placable and mild. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being placable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Placarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Placarding. ] 1. To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. plaquer to lay or clap on, plaque plate, tablet; probably from Dutch, cf. D. plakken to paste, post up, plak a flat piece of wood. ] 1. A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All placards or edicts are published in his name. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. [ Obs. ] ller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Anc. Armor) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate. Planché. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. [ Cf. Placket. ] A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Placated p. pr. & vb. n. Placating. ] [ L. placatus, p. p. of placare to placate, akin to placere to please. See Please. ] To appease; to pacify; to concilate. “Therefore is he always propitiated and placated.” Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Placard, 4 & 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. placatio. ] The act of placating. [ R. ] Puttenham (1589). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. platea a street, an area, a courtyard, from Gr. platei^a a street, properly fem. of platy`s, flat, broad; akin to Skr. p&rsdot_;thu, Lith. platus. Cf. Flawn, Piazza, Plate, Plaza. ] 1. Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here is the place appointed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

What place can be for us
Within heaven's bound? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The word place has sometimes a more confused sense, and stands for that space which any body takes up; and so the universe is a place. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. “Hangman boys in the market place.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Are you native of this place? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. “The enervating magic of place.” Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men in great place are thrice servants. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know my place as I would they should do theirs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). “In place of Lord Bassanio.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A definite position or passage of a document. [ 1913 Webster ]

The place of the scripture which he read was this. Acts viii. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for. [ 1913 Webster ]

My word hath no place in you. John viii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Astron.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, finish first or second, in England, usually, first, second, or third. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Place of arms (Mil.), a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe retreat for hospitals, magazines, etc. Wilhelm. --
High place (Script.), a mount on which sacrifices were offered. “Him that offereth in the high place.” Jer. xlviii. 35. --
In place, in proper position; timely. --
Out of place, inappropriate; ill-timed; as, his remarks were out of place. --
Place kick (Football), the act of kicking the ball after it has been placed on the ground. --
Place name, the name of a place or locality. London Academy. --
To give place, to make room; to yield; to give way; to give advantage. “Neither give place to the devil.” Eph. iv. 27. “Let all the rest give place.” Shak. --
To have place, to have a station, room, or seat; as, such desires can have no place in a good heart. --
To take place. (a) To come to pass; to occur; as, the ceremony will not take place. (b) To take precedence or priority. Addison. (c) To take effect; to prevail. “If your doctrine takes place.” Berkeley. “But none of these excuses would take place.” Spenser. --
To take the place of, to be substituted for. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Situation; seat; abode; position; locality; location; site; spot; office; employment; charge; function; trust; ground; room; stead. [ 1913 Webster ]