Meanings of propitiate the gods in English

Says Nero's own tutor, Seneca, Do you want to propitiate the gods?

They had a religious origin, having been designed to propitiate the gods of deformity and disease.

They finally decided to propitiate the gods by building a great temple with a gigantic statue of Buddha.

Lethbury could hardly repress a chuckle: he was so exquisitely aware that she was trying to propitiate the gods.

Wouldest thou propitiate the gods?

The five now were like the Romans and the Greeks, who were anxious to propitiate the gods ere going into action.

The Chorus advises her to propitiate the gods with sacrifice, and to pray to Darius her dead husband to send his son prosperity.

At other times means are taken to propitiate the gods, to subdue enemies, and to secure good fortune to individuals, households, and communities.

It would represent a suitably primitive attempt to propitiate the gods of banking by a not-wholly-pointless sacrifice intended to end the global financial crisis.

When propitiating the gods of the underworld,-Hades ,Persephone ,etc.,-aBLACKvictim was in order.

"Why not write him off twenty shares to propitiate the gods-giftsunto the needy, eh!- athousand-fold-what

The negroes seriously believe he has a private arrangement with the devil, of whom he gets his wisdom, and the secret of propitiating the gods.

In the winter A.D. 302-'3, the Christian soldiers in some of the legions refused to join in the time-honored solemnities for propitiating the gods.

'But to ensure a fortunate event, and propitiate the gods, I would early, and before the august ceremonies, offer the most costly and acceptable sacrifice.'