... Sacrificed: not only to propitiate the gods, but toobtain omens or signs for their future guidance... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...The king of Onitsha“does not step out of his house into the town unless a humansacrifice is made to propitiate the gods: on this account he nevergoes out beyond the precincts of his premises...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
... Julia Vickers hastened to propitiate the arbiter of her daughter's fate...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...Such poles are permanently fixed, supported by substantial props, and it was doubtless one of them that Captain Sturt supposed to have been erected to propitiate some deity...
Thomas Mitchell 「Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2)」
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