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propitiate

verb
/ˌpɹəˈpɪʃieɪt/

Etymology

From Latin propitiāt-, the past participial stem of propitiāre (“make favourable”), from propitius (“favourable, gracious”).

  1. derived from propitiāt-

Definitions

  1. To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.

    • Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.
    • But polite and politic it is, to propitiate your hostess.
    • [H]e heard . . . one of the soldiers singing as he cleaned his rifle—the men always sang over this business, as if to propitiate the gun god.

  2. To make propitious or favourable.

  3. To make propitiation.

The neighborhood

Derived

propitiatingly, propitiation, propitiative, propitiatory, propitious, propitiousness, repropitiate, unpropitiated, unpropitiating

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at propitiate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at propitiate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at propitiate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA