Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.
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Propitiate
/ˌpɹəˈpɪʃieɪt/
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But polite and politic it is, to propitiate your hostess.
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[H]e heard . . . one of the soldiers singing as he cleaned his rifle—the men always sang over this business, as if to propitiate the gun god.
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The androgynous creative deity was best supplicated or propitiated by offerings concerned with the pleasures of the flesh. In such circumstances, to the worshipper as to the god, licentiousness was not a sin: on the contrary, it was a duty.
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