Propitiatory

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  propitiatory
       adj 1: having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or
              propitiation; "expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice"
              [syn: {expiatory}, {expiative}]
       2: intended to reconcile or appease; "sent flowers as a
          propitiatory gesture" [syn: {propitiative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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