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Definition of Propitiatory
1. Adjective. Having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation. "Expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice"
Derivative terms: Expiate, Expiate
Partainyms: Expiation, Expiation
2. Adjective. Intended to reconcile or appease. "Sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture"
Similar to: Conciliative, Conciliatory
Derivative terms: Propitiate, Propitiate
Definition of Propitiatory
1. a. Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice.
2. n. The mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the propitiated Jehovah.
Definition of Propitiatory
1. Adjective. intended to propitiate, reconcile, expiate or appease; conciliatory ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Propitiatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Propitiatory
Literary usage of Propitiatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1870)
"There was but one sacrifice propitiatory, that of Christ, and Christ alone could
... One of our Articles pronounces the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass a ..."
2. A Letter to the Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, in by Edward Bouverie Pusey, Charles James Blomfield (1851)
"68, "propitiatory" is, as Thorndike explains it, that which " doth render God
... 107) take " propitiatory" in the sense of " being" or " making a ..."
3. Arcana Coelestia: The Heavenly Arcana which are Contained in the Holy by Emanuel Swedenborg (1857)
"And thou shalt make two cherubs, of solid gold thou shalt make them, from the
two extremities uf the propitiatory. And make one cherub from- the ..."
4. A Critical Exposition of the Third Chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the by James Morison (1866)
"The shedding of their blood was emphatically propitiatory. The sprinkling of the
shed blood was propitiatory. The incense, too, was propitiatory. ..."
5. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"propitiatory, any thing rendering God propitious ; as propitiatory sacrifices,
... Among the Jews the propitiatory was the cover or lid of the ark of the ..."
6. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"It involved political propitiatory rites, &c.—It was sustained expressly only by
temporal sanctions.—External action is the criterion but not the rule of ..."
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