Do we say proprietary or propitiatory

proprietary 622 occurrences

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The Privy Council, however, to whom the persistent agent appealed, composed of the great dignitaries of the realm, decided that the proprietary estates of the Penns should contribute their proportion of the public revenue.

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"Castle Craney Crow," smiled Foy with a proprietary wave of his hand.

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propitiatory 44 occurrences

Associated with belief in the efficacy of propitiatory offerings and "ceremonies of riddance," is the ethical suggestion that good wishes and good deeds influence spirits to perform acts of kindly intent.

He was sulky, however, and would not come to terms; she was to go again with a propitiatory offering, but what it was she forbore to say.

Suppose it in material danger (mariners have some superstition about sentiments) of being tossed over in a fresh gale to some propitiatory shark (spirit of Saint Gothard, save us from a quietus so foreign to the deviser's purpose!)

I was greatly astonished to read in Mr. Hay's "Western Barbary," (p. 123), these words"During one of the late rebellions, a beautiful young girl was offered up as a propitiatory sacrifice, her throat being cut before the tent of the Sultan, and in his presence!"

Perhaps the oldest and most prevalent religious idea of antiquity was the necessity of propitiatory sacrifice,generally of animals, though in remotest ages the offering of the fruits of the earth.

Whereat Gracie broke into a propitiatory smile.

I asked him why he pressed Dr. Clarke, an Arian. 'Because (said he) he is fullest on the propitiatory sacrifice.'"

When they intend to cut one down, they first pour rum at the root as a propitiatory offering.'

As we marched in there was a cheer, not very heartya cheer propitiatory, for they did not know what we meant to do.

Many a healthy thirst reared on salt beef and tickled with strong tobacco had been spoiled by the sight of Mr. Lister standing by the entrance, with a propitiatory smile, waiting to be invited in to share it, and on one occasion they had even seen him (him, Jem Lister, A.B.) holding a horse's head, with ulterior motives.

They will be neither advantageous to the writer, interesting to the public, nor propitiatory for the work itself; since the world care less about the squabbles of authors and booksellers than even an "untoward event" in Parliament; and if the writer of every book were to detail his vexations as a preface, the publication of a long series of "Calamities" might be commenced immediately.

As for that pledge of the New Citizenship, the Education Bill, the debate on the second reading has been such a long eulogy of its author that Mr. Fisher would be well advised to offer a propitiatory sacrifice to Nemesis.

" Dryden, it is true, founds upon the mercy of the Deity a hope, that the benefit of the propitiatory sacrifice of our Mediator may be extended to those who knew not of its power.

"The gall was carefully removed," and the propitiatory offering made to the gods.

At any other time Lewisham might have been propitiatory, but now he offered no apology.

"Of course it is war!" retorted the doctor as if offended at the propitiatory tone of her friend.

The prevalence of propitiatory sacrifices throughout the earth proclaims it to be the general sense of mankind that mere repentance was not of sufficient avail to expiate sin or to stop its penal effects.

He was still seeking a propitiatory phrase with which to break the oppressive silence, when Pomeroy anticipated him.

ANASÚYÁ. Go quickly, dear Priyamvadá, throw yourself at his feet, and persuade him to come back, while I prepare a propitiatory offering for him, with water and refreshments.

Propitiatory offering.

He occasionally makes offerings and sacrifices which are regarded as propitiatory.

A farmer, who had lost a number of his sheep and cattle by murrain, burned a calf as a propitiatory offering to the Deity on this spot, where a chapel was afterwards built.

The Evil Spirit's wrath, however, seemed implacable, for it stormed worse after the performance of these propitiatory rites than it did before.

Armed with an orange and a biscuit for physical refreshment, I depended on sea and sky for my mental entertainment; and in my hand I bore a slender scroll, destined as a propitiatory offering to our offended helmsman.

The Male S. (in a propitiatory tone).

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