propitiate

He was not to be propitiated by a show of interest in his health.

These are burned to propitiate the spirits of the dead.

They were sacrificing her to propitiate the god of Spring.

A cool water bath is believed to propitiate Him best.

She is propitiated to ward off the effects of black magic.

His idea was to propitiate him in order to save the form at least of parliamentary institutions.

It propitiated a more civilized environment, in the political and social aspects.

The emperor propitiated to the god but the effects were not immediate.

They are propitiated to ward off evils and hard times.

Here the earth god is propitiated in the hope of bringing wealth and health to the village.

Unable to propitiate it, they form a circle around the car and grin at one another.

Most humiliating of all was the thought that she must propitiate the man who had so wounded her.

She was propitiated by libations poured with the left hand.

He had found a way of propitiating his nightmare.

When confronted by his mother he was propitiating to the point of servility.

Nobody's ever figured out how to propitiate a Watcher, either.

Originally, the person had probably been sacrificed to propitiate the gods.

Must not he who maintains that the Gods can be propitiated argue thus?

So tell me quickly what else I can do to propitiate the ogre!"

He worked in the garden to propitiate his uncle.

Many actually go through rites and make offerings to propitiate them."

Even this sacrifice did not appear to propitiate her inquisitor.

Rituals to propitiate these spirits are conducted by special priests.

They teach that in order to obtain the power, it is necessary to propitiate these devils.

Sacrifices of animals were common as a means of propitiating these forces.