Crossword-Solution: PROPITIATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Propitiate | v. t. | To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate. |
| Propitiate | v. i. | To make propitiation; to atone. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “PROPITIATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Appease, as a god | 1 answer |
| Win favour with someone by doing something that pleases him | 1 answer |
| Make peace with | 3 answers |
| Placate | 15 answers |
| conciliate | 17 answers |
| Atone | 26 answers |
| Mollify | 33 answers |
| Appease | 35 answers |
| Pacify | 35 answers |
| Allay | 45 answers |
| Assuage | 46 answers |
| Satisfy | 49 answers |
| ACT as a drag | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PROPITIATE (5)
Her demeanour was that of respect, unmingled by the least shade either of fear, or of a wish to propitiate favour.
Monsieur the Marquis cast his eyes over the submissive faces that drooped before him, as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court--only the difference was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate--when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
The institution of temples and sacrifices, and the entire service of gods, demigods, and heroes; also the ordering of the repositories of the dead, and the rites which have to be observed by him who would propitiate the inhabitants of the world below.
Catherine had done nothing subsequently to propitiate her family; she had not even written to them in a way that indicated a lucid appreciation of their suspended sympathy; so that it had become a tradition in Boston circles that the highest charity, as regards this young lady, was to think it well to forget her, and to abstain from conjecture as to the extent to which her aberrations were reproduced in her descendants.
Yet for all their frailness, how much jealousy and envy and unhappiness some of them managed to contain! The life that went on in them seemed to me made up of evasions and negations; shifts to save cooking, to save washing and cleaning, devices to propitiate the tongue of gossip.
Quotes with PROPITIATE (3)
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. Thus defined, religion consists of two elements, a theoretical and a practical, namely, a belief in powers higher than man and an attempt to propitiate or please them. Of the two, belief clearly comes first, since we must believe in the existence of a divine being before we can attempt to please him. But unle…
The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two blacks make a white, and that when a wrong has been done, it should be paid for by an equivalent suffering. It seems to the Philistine majority a matter of course that this compensating suffering should be inflicted on the wrongdoer for the sake of its deterrent effect on other would-be wrongdoers; but a moment's reflection will shew…
The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The very word funus may be translated as dead body, funeral ceremony, or murder. There was a genuine concern that, if not treated appropriately, the spirits of the dead, or manes, would return to wreak revenge
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1969–2003).