pacify

To pacify the ulema, always wary of any rival forum, this initial gathering consisted entirely of men who were clerics.

The Duke strove to pacify him in a long and, as usual, incoherent letter.

As well try to pacify a pack of mad and fighting dogs as these frenzied myriads with their half-crazed generals.

I attempted to pacify her by an indefinite reply to her inquiries, but in vain.

And why do you not apply yourselves to God chiefly for deliverance, but study how to pacify man?

Then I would try to pacify her, usually succeeding, and take my departure, nobody the wiser about it all in spite of the crying.