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

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  1. propitiate: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. propitiate: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See propitiated as well.)

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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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