... 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 chiefs in these parts take upon themselves an office somewhat like the priesthood, and the people imagine that they can propitiate the Deity through them...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...” The people of Paloo in Central Celebes takethe heads of their enemies in war and afterwards propitiate thesouls of the slain in the temple...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
... As a next stage, the fundamental fear of ghosts and the consequent desire to propitiate them acquire an organised ritual in simple forms of ancestor-worship, such as the Rev...
Thomas Henry Huxley 「The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study」
...Thomas, endeavoured to propitiate himby the dedication of this magnificent abbey...
Hartley Withers 「The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].」
... 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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