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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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
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
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
While it powerfully propitiates the reader, it almost converts condemnation into compassion.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle
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
