87 collocations for propitiating

These oblations and sacrifices were sometimes offered to the deity, whatever his form or name, as an expiation for sin, of which the soul is conscious in all ages and countries; sometimes to obtain divine favor, as in military expeditions, or to secure any object dearest to the heart, such as health, prosperity, or peace; sometimes to propitiate the deity in order to avert the calamities following his supposed wrath or vengeance.

They frequently inflict severe bruises or cuts upon their bodies, thinking thus to propitiate their gods.

No boat ventured to cross over without the observance of a religious ceremony, derived from heathen times, to propitiate the spirits of the caverns who were believed to punish the omission of it with storm and ship-wreck.

All this, however, as is now well ascertained, was insufficient to propitiate the rulers of the Southern States to the adoption of the Constitution.

Sacrifices, and burnt offerings were used to propitiate superior powers; but our knowledge of the magical rites exercised by certain oriental nations, the Jews only excepted, is extremely limited.

All these were under his command, and protected by his power, so that none could find them but such as propitiated his favor.

We had, in singular succession, dead calms and fresh breezes, stiff gales and sudden squalls; saw sharks, flying-fish, and dolphins; spoke several vessels: had a visit from Neptune when we crossed the Line, and were compelled to propitiate his favour with some gallons of spirits, which he seems always to find a very agreeable change from sea water; and touched at Table Bay and at Madagascar.

"To do away with the sin of this disobedience, I this day went in a post-chaise to Uttoxeter, and going into the market at the time of high business, uncovered my head and stood with it bare an hour before the stall which my father had formerly used, exposed to the sneers of the standers-by and the inclemency of the weather; a penance by which I trust I have propitiated Heaven for this only instance, I believe, of contumacy to my father."

It was one in which the worshippers of Fortune planked down the last acre of their patrimonial estates to propitiate the fickle goddess in the allurements of the gaming-table.

On a God who never was a ghost men may come to confer sacrifices (which are not made to Baiame and the rest) because, being in the habit of thus propitiating one set of bodiless powers, men may not think it civil or safe to leave another set of powers out.

The Kibla, or direction of prayer, was towards Jerusalem, symbolic of Mahomet's desire to propitiate the Jews, and finally to unite them with his own people in a community with himself as temporal head.

This latest leisure equal lulls The beggar and his queen; Propitiate this democrat By summer's gracious mien. XVII.

All his acts, all his sayings, are made with a view to propitiate his master.

[This sum was probably only to propitiate the Mayor; and if Chambonas, as he proposed, refused farther payment, we may account for Petion's subsequent conduct.] on account of thirty thousand per month which he received under the administration of Dumouriez, for the secret service of the police.

He at last thought to propitiate exasperated Tamanous, and threw away a string of hiaqua.

He is beset with adulatory petitions, and propitiating gifts; the Noblesse who have escaped confinement form a sort of court about his person; and thrice happy is the owner of that habitation at which he condescends to reside.

Her box was a present from Makaraig, who had already got on good terms with her in order to propitiate Don Custodio.

Probably the Indians hope to propitiate the demons who dwell on the mountain tops by inventing charming stories relating to their abode.

No; he has gone to Soma-tírtha to propitiate Destiny, which threatens his daughter

These appearances only made him the more anxious to dare or to propitiate his doom; and he accordingly determined to put himself in the duke's hands.

Now she, in a hurry, said: "My lord's daughter Kandukavati is come to propitiate Durgâ with playing at ball; and she is of unforbidden sight in this Kanduka (ball) festival.

And they being created, propitiate the dwellers of heaven by offerings made to the gods and the names of departed forefathers.

Madero, for reasons that are self-evident, was anxious to propitiate the military element, and to secure the cooperation of the more experienced officers in the regular army for the better pacification of the country.

You, her priest, declare What offerings may propitiate the fair; Rich orient pearl, bright stones that ne'er decay, Or polish'd lines, which longer last than they; For if I thought she took delight in those, To where the cheerful morn does first disclose, 30 (The shady night removing with her beams), Wing'd with bold love, I'd fly to fetch such gems.

The first new milk of a cow was poured out on the ground to propitiate the fairies, and especially on the ground within a fairy rath.

87 collocations for  propitiating