propitiate
verb (used with object)
to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
propitiates
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present tense formof propitiate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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They believe that shaving the head of the dead propitiates the deities in their favour.
From Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs by Jacob Mortimer Wier Silver
And nothing so effectually as an evening bath, as my experience testifies, cures fatigue and propitiates to dreamless slumber.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sacrifice propitiates God, but mercy imitates Him, and imitation is the perfection of divine service.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Alexander Maclaren
While it powerfully propitiates the reader, it almost converts condemnation into compassion.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle
Is it not that Christ is again offered in sacrifice, and that the pain he endures in being so propitiates God in your behalf?
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
