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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Propitiated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Propitiating

[L.

propitiatus

, p. p. of

propitiare

to propitiate, fr.

propitius

favorable. See

To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.

Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage,
The god

propitiate

, and the pest assuage.

Pope.

Verb.

To make propitiation; to atone.

Verb.

[L. propitio; pio. Eng. pity.]

To conciliate; to appease one offended and render him favorable; to make propitious.

Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage,

The god propitiate and the pest assuage.