Propitiatory
[prə'pɪʃɪətɔri]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice.
(n.) The mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the propitiated Jehovah.
編輯:希娜
例句/造句/用法:
- Meaning sir,' observed Wegg, with a propitiatory face to draw him out, and with another peg at his friend and brother, 'in the way of money? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He ascends the door-steps and is gliding into the dusky hall when he encounters, on the top step, a bowing and propitiatory little man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- What Jesus preached was a new birth of the human soul; what Paul preached was the ancient religion of priest and altar and propitiatory bloodshed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
編輯:希娜