[ UK /pɹəpˈɪtɪˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. make peace with
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How To Use propitiate In A Sentence

  • In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.
  • propitiate the gods with a sacrifice.
  • The "Chinks" gave evidence that so far from making trouble they were extremely anxious to propitiate and please, and the man who had evidently served Chang appeared in the cabin tidying things and laying out the food, whilst the man who had evidently been mate worked the ship in his own weird way seeming scarcely ever to sleep. The Beach of Dreams
  • In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.
  • I was obliged to propitiate him by hiring the horse, at a staggering fee, for the duration of our stay at Dahshoor. LION IN THE VALLEY
  • I think that's a fair enough position to take - certainly there are quite a few instances of ‘fierce’ goddesses being propitiated in order to keep them ‘sweet’ as it were.
  • And Suetonius, speaking of Otho, says, “He endeavours, by all kinds of piacular sacrifices, to propitiate the manes of Galba, by whom he had seen himself thrust down and expelled.” A Dissertation on Divine Justice
  • The death of Christ propitiates God, and the word ‘propitiation’ contains the thought of averting the wrath of God.
  • This being occult worship, they propitiate ghosts as part of their ritual.
  • I was obliged to propitiate him by hiring the horse, at a staggering fee, for the duration of our stay at Dahshoor. LION IN THE VALLEY
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