ADJECTIVE
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intended to reconcile or appease
sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture -
having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation
expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice
How To Use propitiatory In A Sentence
- Consequently, the Mass is the impetratory and propitiatory sacrifice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- In fact the numbers voting for it were probably nearer two millions - a respectable enough turnout at a time of civil war, and an indication that the propitiatory gesture of national consultation had achieved some success.
- This helps to explain why, for example, when a calamity afflicted an entire region composed of people belonging to a common clan, all propitiatory religio-ritual ceremonies were directed to the founding ancestress. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
- Propitiatory, expiatory, remissory, or satisfactory, for they signify all one thing in effect, and is nothing else but a thing whereby to obtain remission of sins, and to have salvation. Sermons on the Card
- On Il'ia's day, in many parts of Russia, propitiatory offerings were brought to church.
- Now if I should preach in the country, among the unlearned, I would tell what propitiatory, expiatory, and remissory is; but here is a learned auditory: yet for them that be unlearned I will expound it. Sermons on the Card
- On isolated houses, propitiatory slogans had been painted, large in red paint: `LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC was evidently the safest slogan. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- They must also offer a propitiatory sacrifice to the god worth fifteen drachmae.
- a daily oblation propitiatory, by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory. Sermons on the Card
- God's displeasure can only be appeased, then, if a propitiatory sacrifice is made.
