Usually means: Appease or pacify a deity.
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  1. propitiate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. propitiate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. propitiate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. propitiate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. propitiate: Vocabulary.com
  6. propitiate: Wordnik
  7. propitiate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. propitiate: Wiktionary
  9. propitiate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. propitiate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. propitiate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Propitiate, propitiate: Dictionary.com
  13. Propitiate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Propitiate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. propitiate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. propitiate: Rhymezone
  17. Propitiate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. propitiate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. propitiate: Free Dictionary
  20. propitiate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. propitiate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. propitiate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. propitiate: Legal dictionary

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  1. propitiate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.
verb:  (transitive) To make propitious or favourable.
verb:  (intransitive) To make propitiation.

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