Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.

    besänftigen

    умиротворя́тьumirotvorjátʹ, успока́иватьuspokáivatʹ

    вмилостивлюватиvmylostyvljuvaty, здобувати прихильністьzdobuvaty pryxylʹnistʹ

    make peace with

  2. (transitive)To make propitious or favourable.

  3. (intransitive)To make propitiation.

Translations

4 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone:
Русский
By meaning 1
to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone:

Origin

From Latin propitiāt-, the past participial stem of propitiāre (“make favourable”), from p

From Latin propitiāt-, the past participial stem of propitiāre (“make favourable”), from propitius (“favourable, gracious”).

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Forms

propitiates, propitiating, propitiated, propitiated
Base formpropitiate · to propitiate
3rd person singularpropitiates
Present participlepropitiating
Past simplepropitiated
Past participlepropitiated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypropitiate
he, she, itpropitiates

Past simpleLesson

all personspropitiated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave propitiated
he, she, ithas propitiated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill propitiate

Synonyms

2 synonyms
appeaseatone
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words
Relatedpropitiouspropitiativepropitiatorypropitiation
Derivedpropitiatinglypropitiousnessrepropitiateunpropitiatedunpropitiating

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
prophetC1propheticC1prophylacticproponentB2proportionB1
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