placentious

English

Etymology

From Latin placentius, from placeō (“to please”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pləˈsɛnʃiəs/, /pləˈsɛnʃəs/

Adjective

placentious (comparative more placentious, superlative most placentious)

1. (obsolete) pleasing; amiable
   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:

     a placentious person

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “placentious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• peculations, speculation, spinoculate