propitiate
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propitiate
- /ˌpɹəˈpɪʃieɪt/
Rhymes with -ɪʃieɪt
Where it comes from
From Latin propitiāt-, the past participial stem of propitiāre (“make favourable”), from propitius (“favourable, gracious”).
verb propitiates · propitiating · propitiated
- To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit. Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.
- To make propitious or favourable. But what was that compared to the pleasure of gazing on him, and listening to his words of pity or of praise! to witnessing the sparkling of his eyes when he gazed on his boy, and sought, by every possible medium, to coax him to his arms, a task not to be achieved in a moment; or in listening to tha
- To make propitiation.
