Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To conciliate (an offended power); appease: propitiate the gods with a sacrifice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To appease and render favorable; make propitious; conciliate.
- To make propitiation or atonement.
Wiktionary
- v. To conciliate, appease or make peace with someone.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.
- v. To make propitiation; to atone.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make peace with
Etymologies
- Latin propitiāre, propitiāt-, from propitius, propitious; see propitious.
Examples
“I don't know what 'propitiate' means," I said, sighing.”
“Him Von Schmidt desired to please and propitiate because from him could be obtained the”
“Bond markets, those invisible deities that debt reduction is designed to propitiate, could never be confident that debt triggers will actually reduce government debt.”
“Details of the ritual are sketchy, but it is believed that Brown intends to cast some of his followers out of the cult, and to elevate preferred acolytes, in an attempt to propitiate their god, Gallup-Mori.”
“However, to propitiate the Hungry Folk, he made one of them leader of the ship expedition.”
“Why don't the Na'vi feel the natural need to propitiate their gods -- on whose whims their lives constantly depend -- so nature doesn't get out of control?”
“So he tried to propitiate Job in all manner of ways.”
“Thus, Clay sought—as the Union instantly recognized—“to propitiate the abolitionists of the north and some of the Proviso men of New York.””
“Therefore, it is totally inappropriate for the great monasteries of the Gelug tradition, the Upper and Lower Tantric Monasteries and all other affiliated monasteries which are national institutions ever to propitiate Dolgyal.”
“Some of you feel that your business and ability to earn a living do better if you propitiate”
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