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propitiatory a. 安撫的;和解的 安撫的;和解的 propitiatory adj 1: having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation; " expiatory ( or propitiatory) sacrifice" [ synonym: { expiatory}, { expiative}, { propitiatory}] 2: intended to reconcile or appease; " sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture" [ synonym: { propitiative}, { propitiatory}] Propitiatory \ Pro* pi" ti* a* to* ry\, a. [ L. propitiatorius: cf. F. propitiatoire.] Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice. -- Sharp. [ 1913 Webster]
Propitiatory \ Pro* pi" ti* a* to* ry\, n. [ L. propitiatorium.] ( Jewish Antiq.) The mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the propitiated Jehovah. -- Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster] 70 Moby Thesaurus words for " propitiatory": Christlike, Christly, acquiescent, apologetic, appeasing, ascetic, atoning, celestial, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compliant, conciliatory, deferential, divine, empyrean, expiatory, expurgatory, godlike, godly, heavenly, incarnate, incarnated, ingratiating, intercessional, intercessive, irenic, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, made flesh, mediative, mediatory, mollifying, obeisant, obliging, pacific, pacificatory, pacifying, penitential, piacular, placative, placatory, propitiative, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, reconciliatory, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, salvational, satisfactional, self- existent, soothing, squaring, superhuman, supernatural, tractable, transcendent
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