Propitiate

Quick meaning: Propitiate is a verb meaning (transitive) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.

Meaning

(transitive) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To make propitious or favourable.
2. (intransitive) To make propitiation.

Example Sentences

But polite and politic it is, to propitiate your hostess.

Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.

[H]e heard . . . one of the soldiers singing as he cleaned his rifle—the men always sang over this business, as if to propitiate the gun god.

By saying unequivocally that conscription is not an option, the Bush administration and the Rumsfeld Pentagon, while propitiating the ghost of Vietnam, are also profiting from the success of the all-volunteer military.

Word Forms

• propitiates
• propitiating
• propitiated

Synonyms for propitiate

Depending on context, synonyms include appease, atone.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include appease, repropitiate, conciliate, atone, pease, accommodate.

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