Having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation.
Intended to reconcile or appease.
1 Getting into bed, I threw a propitiatory prayer in their general direction.
2 He makes no attempt to be obscure or propitiatory in this connection.
3 He coughed a propitiatory cough and looked round the Sawdust Pile appraisingly.
4 Meanwhile, the usual propitiatory ceremonies must be enacted, particularly the sacrifice.
5 After the expiatory and propitiatory ceremony the Reverend Father Douillard ascended the pulpit.
6 Then approaching cringingly the keyhole, in a propitiatory tone he asked:
7 He made a propitiatory gesture to the group around the fire.
8 At the same instant a propitiatory cigarette was offered and accepted.
9 His anxious eyes and faintly propitiatory manner suggested an impending appeal.
10 He occasionally makes offerings and sacrifices which are regarded as propitiatory .
11 A smile, intended to be propitiatory , appeared upon the pale face.
12 I've left you my Diaz as a sort of propitiatory sop.
13 Even the propitiatory gestures of the creature failed to disarm me.
14 So, a propitiatory or atoning sacrifice is offered by Christ's blood, or death.
15 Oh, for an altar on which to pour out propitiatory offerings!
16 Obo.-Thesacred and propitiatory signs in all the dangerous places in Urianhai and Mongolia.
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