To appease their clamors, Astyochus was compelled to call together a general assembly, the resolution of which was pronounced in favor of immediate battle.
Even as I wished to say, "Thou dost appease me," I saw that I had reached another circle, So that my eager eyes made me keep silence.
And if my reasoning appease thee not, Thou shalt see Beatrice; and she will fully Take from thee this and every other longing.
There was a pretty general disposition to make further concessions and compromises to appease the disunion sentiment of the South.
Dion is often conscious of the difficulty of his task; and he exerts all his trained dexterity to appease opposition, and gain a hearing for his message.
The Sixth Book of the Aeneid was an effort not only to glorify the legendary heroes of Rome, but to appease a new or revived longing for the hope of immortality, after the desolating nihilism of the Epicurean philosophy had run its course.
He remained the god of Persia, while he gathered into his creed mystic elements that might appease the spiritual cravings of the western world.
It could not appease the sense of error and frailty by ghostly comfort and sacramental absolution.
If God is good and wishes only the good of His creatures, then to seek to appease His wrath and avert His capricious judgments becomes an impiety.
Isis and Serapis, along with Mithra, were preparing the Western world for the religion which was to appease the long travail of humanity by a more perfect vision of the Divine.
But Juvenal's scorn seems to fall quite as heavily on the innocent votary who was striving to appease a burdened conscience, as on one who made her superstition a screen for vice.
When Nero was haunted by the Furies of his murdered mother, he is said to have offered a magic sacrifice to evoke and appease her spirit.
There was a great dispute among them about who should bury him; but when on the eve of breaking out into open violence, the magistrates and old men of Corinth opportunely arrived to appease the disturbance.
To appease this prince Aristotle sent him for answer, that he had published his books, but in such a way that in fact they were not published.
Laban, indeed, endeavors to appease him, by giving him his beloved also after a short time, and this but on the condition of seven years of further service.
I have been obliged to make great advances to appease those discontents, and I now hope the authority and prudence of Captain Jones will be able to remove, or at least to prevent, the ill effects of those misunderstandings.
Burning at the stake and hanging upon a gibbet were sacrifices to appease the divine justice.
In short, all bloody sacrifices were propitiatory, to appease the rage of hunger in a famished god.
Their voices and murmuring, though like Rachael's "weeping for her children and would not be comforted," all this to appease the Moloch of war and to gratify the ambition of fanatics.
Cœna; the Silicernium; served on the ninth day to appease the dead.
One of his ministers, however, contrived to appease him, at least so far as to induce him to abandon this design.
For whatever my grand vizier told you, it was only to appease you that he said it: it must therefore be nothing but a dream; and I beg of you not to believe any thing to the contrary.
He endeavoured thus to appease him, and desired him to examine the matter, and see whether they did indeed commit the crime of which they were accused.
He endeavoured still to appeasethe genie, and says, Alas!
He was shot the next morning to appease the chagrin of Uraga, furious at our escape.
But even all this does notappease his malevolent spirit.
The guards vainly endeavoured to appease the, in many cases, half- frenzied creatures.
Self-mortification is also sometimes resorted to not so much to appease the anger of a god as rather to excite his compassion.
But our authority, Cieza de Leon, adds that those Indians also offered human victims when their chiefs were sick "to appease the wrath of their gods.
Besides hymns of praise there are hymns of penitence, the object of which is largely to appease the angry feelings of offended gods.
The victim whose suffering or death is calculated to appease the wrathful god is not anybody {68} at random, whosoever he may be.
It seems probable that this ceremony was undertaken in order to appease the enraged spirit of the dead,[20] and at the same time it may have been intended to refresh the spirit with blood.
Therein if you offend, you suffer; unless you can appeasethe enraged spirit, neither ignorance nor intoxication is a feasible plea in extenuation.
Finally, as offenders are sacrificed to gods in order to appease their wrath, so manslayers are in many cases killed in order to satisfy their victims' craving for revenge.
In some cases, as we have seen, their object is to appease a resentful god by the mere death of the victim.
Religious celibacy is, moreover, enjoined or commended as a means of self-mortification supposed to appease an angry god, or with a view to raising the spiritual nature of man by suppressing one of the strongest of all sensual appetites.
Thou knowest that many of the greatest of this realm are opposed to our union, through apprehension of Aragonese sway, and wilt observe how studiously we have striven to appease their jealousies.
Appease these agonies; by my eternal hope, I swear, whatever the danger, or the foe that threatens, I will defend you with my life from injury.
Under the distress which suggested, and was reciprocally aggravated by these gloomy ideas, prophets were consulted, and supplications with solemn procession were held at the temples, to appease the divine wrath.
The natives, informed of his intention, were sensible of the unequal contest and endeavored to appease him by submission.
He endeavoured thus to appease him, and desired him to examine whether they did indeed commit the crime of which they were accused.
For whatever my grand vizier told you, it was only to appease your anger, it must therefore be a mere dream; and I beg of you not to believe otherwise, but recover your senses.
Some excuse must be made toappease the caliph's anger.
He endeavoured still to appease the genie, and said, "Alas!
The old woman, who had been his nurse, came in just at that moment, fell down upon her knees, and endeavoured to appease his wrath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appease" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
