▪ I. † proˈpitiate, ppl. a. Obs. rare.
[f. L. propitiāt-us, pa. pple. of propiti-āre: see next.]
Propitiated. (In quot. const. as pa. pple.)
| 1551 Bp. Gardiner Explic. 150 With suche sacrifices God is made fauorable, or God is propitiate, if we shall make new Englishe. |
▪ II. propitiate, v.
(prəʊˈpɪʃɪeɪt)
[f. ppl. stem of L. propiti-āre to render favourable, appease (f. propiti-us propitious): see -ate3.]
1. trans. To render propitious or favourably inclined; to appease, conciliate (one offended).
| 1645 Waller To Mistris Broughton Poems 127 You (her priest) declare What offrings may propitiate the Faire. 1759 Johnson Rasselas xi, That the supreme Being may be more easily propitiated in one place than in another is the dream of idle superstition. 1832 H. Martineau Manch. Strike viii, If it was indeed necessary to propitiate the masters by sacrificing him. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 153 That they [the Gods] can be propitiated..is not to be allowed or admitted for an instant. |
† 2. intr. To make propitiation. Obs. rare—1.
| 1703 Young Serm. II. 267 The sorrows of our Lord were propitiating for the sins of Eden. |
† 3. trans. To treat propitiously. Obs. rare—1.
| 1768 [W. Donaldson] Life Sir B. Sapskull I. xiv. 142 The Grecians..used to enrich their victim, by tipping his horns with gold, in order to bribe the mercenary God to propitiate their appeal. |
Hence proˈpitiated, proˈpitiating ppl. adjs.; proˈpitiatingly adv.
| a 1711 Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 68 And on the cross breathing his painful last, To his propitiated great Father pass'd. a 1812 A. M'Lean Comm. Heb. (1847) II. xii. 196 Christ is represented as the meek and propitiating Lamb. 1873 Symonds Grk. Poets ix. 291 The old Oedipus,..is made a blessed Daemon through the mercy of propitiated deities. 1890 E. L. Arnold Phra vii, ‘Now’, said the scribe propitiatingly. |