propitiate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PROPI'TIATE, verb transitive [Latin propitio; pio. Eng. pity.] To conciliate; to appease one offended and render him favorable; to make propitious. Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate and the pest assuage.
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