" Do not despise any honest propitiation, however small, in dealing with your editor.

It is used in all ceremonies performed in connection with the death of a person or having for their object the propitiation of the Manes of ancestors.

Oblivion, or neglect, will show itself in leaving the Supreme Being alone, as he needs no propitiation, while devoting sacrifice and ritual to fetishes and ghosts.

It was undergone for no other purpose than that of pleasing Godas a propitiation or in fulfilment of vows made to him.