propitiate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

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

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

From Latin propitiāt-, the past participial stem of propitiāre (“make favourable”), from propitius (“favourable, gracious”).

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