Propitiatory
[prə'pɪʃɪətɔri]
Definition
(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.
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Examples
- 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? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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