The worshipers attempted to propitiate the gods with a sacrifice. From LearnThat.org.
"I don't know what 'propitiate' means," I said, sighing. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy] Reference
May their saints propitiate this insatiate thirst!. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
The woman was actually whining and seeking to propitiate the man. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Mrs. Gaunt seemed, by her manner, desirous to propitiate the witness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
Bedouin, to propitiate, with certain formulas, the jinni of the lake. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
They also endeavour to propitiate Him by outward worship or sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
They have no priests or idols, say no prayers, make no offerings to propitiate the. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
"I'll shave it off," he said, with the air of a man who can do no more to propitiate the Gods. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
They address a river as Ganga Mai or 'Mother Ganges' in order to propitiate it by this flattery. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Probably he was anxious to propitiate her with regard to whatever Bertha might be writing about. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
He believed the ladies did not fancy him; he therefore made no efforts to propitiate their favor. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
They were so feared that a festival, called the Lemuralia, was celebrated in order to propitiate them. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Mr. Holloway came to propitiate the Stock Exchange committee; he came to ask them not to prosecute him. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference
If Danglars came in his way he would endeavor to reclaim and propitiate him, but he could not seek him out. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
They were pleading before angry and irresponsible judges, whom it, was their object to soothe and propitiate. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
The vow to crusade was irrevocable, and sovereigns took it to obtain pardon, to secure glory, and propitiate favor. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
Panic-stricken at the results of his greed, Miser threw down his load of treasure to propitiate the angry tamahnawas. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
And were they sacrificed to him, as a dark hero or demi-god of the past, to propitiate him against plague or conquest?. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
They here witnessed a human sacrifice, to propitiate the favor of their gods in a battle they were about to undertake. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages] Reference
They propitiate the spirits of their ancestors on the 15th of Asarh (June) with offerings of a little rice and incense. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
In time of distress a vow would be made to sacrifice every creature born in April and May to propitiate an offended deity. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
To propitiate his patron, the unscrupulous husband introduces him and his companion into the box of his unsuspecting wife!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Treadwell, overcome by sudden remorse, and a kind of fear, strove to propitiate the sternness that found no expression in words. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
This is celebrating pagan rituals that eventually lead to the sacrifice of a chosen young woman to propitiate the gods of spring. From Wordnik.com. [Stravinsky's Riotous 'Rite of Spring'] Reference
Further to propitiate the newly created Muscovite colonel's wrath, a guard of five men, a guard of honour, -- hear it, ye Englishmen!. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
Castilian we had found at Cabo Tormentoso had told us of the mine of precious stones, we hastened to propitiate them in every way. From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
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