Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.
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Propitiate
//ˌpɹəˈpɪʃieɪt//
Synonyms for "propitiate" (66 found)
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21 translations across 14 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἱλάσκομαι verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Bulgarian
1 entries- умиротворявам verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 和解 verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
- 安撫 /安抚 verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Dutch
2 entries- gunstig stemmen verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
- verzoenen verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Esperanto
1 entries- satigi verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
French
1 entries- apaiser verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
German
1 entries- besänftigen verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Greek
2 entries- εξευμενίζω verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
- κατευνάζω verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Latin
1 entries- propitiō verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Māori
3 entries- whakamārire verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
- whakaturi verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
- whakawhere verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Russian
2 entries- умиротворя́ть verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
- успока́ивать verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- umilostiviti verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Swedish
1 entries- blidka verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
Ukrainian
2 entries- вмилостивлювати verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
- здобувати прихильність verb (to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone)
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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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