propitiates
- present tense form of propitiate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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And nothing so effectually as an evening bath, as my experience testifies, cures fatigue and propitiates to dreamless slumber....
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
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 Costello, Louisa Stuart
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 Lang, Andrew
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 Maclaren, Alexander
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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher
