Vocabulary Word
Word: propitiate
Definition: appease; conciliate; make peaceful; ADJ. propitiatory
Definition: appease; conciliate; make peaceful; ADJ. propitiatory
Sentences Containing 'propitiate'
``You had better, Lucie,''said Mr. Lorry, doing all he could to propitiate, by tone and manner,``have the dear child here, and our good Pross.
I have told you of her attempts to propitiate M. de Villefort, her devotion to the elder Dantes.
Do the necessary rites, and you propitiate the gods; and these rites were often trivial, sometimes violated right feeling or even morality.
As I drew nearer to them, trying to propitiate the tinker by my looks, I observed that the woman had a black eye.
Your manner, which I must say does not seem intended to propitiate, induces me to think it possible.
However, the parents desired a son and so prayed and performed austerities to propitiate the deities Mitra and Varuna, who changed Ilā's gender.
Festivals were also held in ancient Rome in response to particular events, or for a particular purpose such as to propitiate or show gratitude toward the gods.
Dies Sanguinis ("Day of Blood") was a festival held in Ancient Rome on the 24th March, called Bellona's Day, when the Roman votaries of the war-goddess Bellona cut themselves and drank the sacrificial blood to propitiate the deity.
