propitiate
verb (used with object)
to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
had propitiated
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past perfectof propitiate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Vasishtha tells the king that on a former occasion he had offended the divine cow Fragrant, and had been cursed by the cow to lack children until he had propitiated her own offspring.
From Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa
But Kamei Sama, little thinking how his vassal had propitiated his enemy, lay brooding over his vengeance, and on the following morning at daybreak went to Court in solemn procession.
From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale
Perhaps he had propitiated him by a promise of more white men to play with, by and by.
From Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad
She had propitiated, ignored, eluded the more feminine amenities of fate.
From The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur by May Sinclair
Secure of the affections of Miss Fulcher, he had propitiated rumour by the fiction of his engagement to Lucia.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
