'Propitiatory' definitions:
Definition of 'propitiatory'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation; "expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice" [syn: expiatory, expiative, propitiatory]
adjective
Intended to reconcile or appease; "sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture" [syn: propitiative, propitiatory]
Definition of 'Propitiatory'
From: 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]
Definition of 'Propitiatory'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'propitiatory'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquiescent,
- apologetic,
- appeasing,
- ascetic,
- atoning,
- celestial,
- Christlike,
- Christly,
- 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