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Sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and the propitiatory, that is over it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
This may be called the propitiatory use, analogous in print to the tentative air with which, in conversation, the Englishman not sure of his pronunciation offers a French word. From Wordnik.com. [Quotation Marks.] Reference
I hope that by using it, as a kind of propitiatory symbol, he may meet with merciful consideration. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
The Brahmanas performed propitiatory ceremonies for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
They no longer uttered Vashats and performed other propitiatory rites. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Liberty, and offered up, a propitiatory sacrifice to the demon of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Marion's whole life became one propitiatory sacrifice to her mother-in-law. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
The ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil that is drawn before it. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
I witnessed the propitiatory ceremony during several cases of serious sickness. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
And Brahmanas performed propitiatory rites for them, and bards sang their praises. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Two cherubims also of beaten gold, which he set on the two sides of the propitiatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
We may note here the euphemistic tendency to call powerful spirits by propitiatory names. From Wordnik.com. [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference
Caligula, in his mad passage over his bridge of boats, paused to offer propitiatory sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
She was offering us all up together in a single propitiatory holocaust to the gods of the schoolroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Spreading their wings, and covering the propitiatory, and looking one towards the other, and towards it. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
And to depart from injustice, is to offer a propitiatory sacrifice for injustices, and a begging of pardon for sins. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Their worship involved propitiatory sacrifices and rites as well as thanksgiving offerings when favors were bestowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
The wretched, propitiatory, humbly-ecstatic Schwartz advanced, but she showed her gleaming teeth, and growled aversion. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
In such cases, expiations should be made, and propitiatory rites should be observed, and oblations offered to the gods. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Tibetan people is vitally important, engaging in this controversial and divisive propitiatory practice is inappropriate. From Wordnik.com. [His Holiness the Dalai Lama���s Advice Concerning Dolgyal (Shugden)] Reference
"The brute!" she thought, as she smiled the propitiatory smile of one who is afraid and murmured, "How very interesting!". From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger seven times towards the propitiatory to the east. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 65: Hebrews The Challoner Revision] Reference
The Rishis, filled with fear, became agitated, and desirous of their own good as also of all creatures, performed propitiatory rites. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
That air of propitiatory humility which I had seen in him when we had first encountered on Lorette was exaggerated to a slavish adulation. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Kasyapa beheld the goddess Earth, despondent and sad, he, O protector of men, performed a propitiatory act calculated to appease her wrath. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1] Reference
Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
It gave him a propitiatory dog-like look, and there was a hint of fawning in his attitude which matched it perfectly and carried out the likeness. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Dwaipayana's assistance a sacred and auspicious region, performed certain propitiatory ceremonies and measured out a piece of land for their city. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
And they had various sorts of sacrifices, wherein to this end the blood of them was sprinkled, they being propitiatory in their offering; as, -- (1.). From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
Beseleel maketh the ark: the propitiatory, and cherubims, the table, the candlestick, the lamps, and the altar of incense, and compoundeth the incense. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Bhima will, after he hath washed himself and said his prayers and performed the usual propitiatory rites, pay his attentions to thee till the sun sets. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
And after auspicious and sweet-sounding musical instruments had been struck up as a propitiatory ceremony, some persons entered, equipped with various arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
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