After the argument ,she sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture.    From LearnThat.org. 

Expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

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

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

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