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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Ages, empires, civilisations pass, and leave some members even of educated mankind still, in certain points, on the level of the savage who propitiates with gifts, or addresses with prayers, the spirits of the dead.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang
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
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
There is a humble, civil air about the people in the Vallée d'Ossau, which propitiates one: the berret is always taken off as a stranger passes, and a kind salutation uniformly given.
From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello
The Indian yields to it a sort of worship, propitiates it with offerings of tobacco, thanks it in prosperity, and upbraids it in disaster.
From The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman
