The deity, whose aid is necessary, is propitiatedwith offerings.
Their belief is that these deities are ever prone to do harm to them, and should therefore be propitiated with offerings.
I did not find out if they were propitiated in any way.
The Paraiyans believe that the ancestors will be ill-disposed towards them, if they are notpropitiated with offerings of rice and other things.
In cases where the gods refuse to appear in any one of those seated for the purpose, the ceremony is prolonged until the gods are so properly propitiated as to constrain them to manifest themselves.
Ancestors who died from some untoward accident are propitiated in the month of Avani (August-September) by offerings of flesh and liquor.
As this is being done, Kallatikode Nili, the presiding archdemon, is propitiated with songs and offerings.
Such an Agni is now being propitiatedby offerings of fried paddy.
In some cases, girls who have died unmarried are supposed to haunt the house, and bring trouble thereto, and they must be propitiated by marriage.
Afterwards, having been propitiated by the gentle words of Sumukha, he released me from the snare, and setting me free, showed respect and honour to me.
Those spirits who could be propitiated were exalted as benevolent deities; those who could not be bargained with were regarded as evil gods and goddesses.
The animal might be the source of the food supply, or might have to be propitiated to ensure the food supply.
The forms of the "self power" which were propitiated were trees, rivers, hills, or animals.
Almost every god had to be propitiated in the same way; but above all must the war-god be for ever glutted with the smoking hearts of slain captives.
In the Hebrides the spirits of earth and air were propitiated every quarter by throwing outside the door a cock, hen, duck, or cat, which was supposed to be seized by them.
He had propitiated the chief families of Connaught by his first marriage with More, daughter of O'Heyne, and his second marriage with Duvchalvay, daughter of O'Conor.
Secondary influences, though none the less strongly felt, were those of the past heroes of the house, sometimes only just dead, to be propitiated at the family tombs or hearth.
The publican prays, not that God may be merciful without sacrifice, but: "God be propitiated toward me, the sinner!
Conscience, the reflection of God's holiness, can be propitiated only by propitiating holiness itself.
This holds, like the Socinian, that there is no principle of the divine nature which is propitiated by Christ's death; but that this death is a manifestation of the love of God, suffering in and with the sins of his creatures.
God be propitiated toward me the sinner"--by the sacrifice, whose smoke was ascending before the publican, even while he prayed.
Betty, who had been turning up her nose at the men she had so far smiled upon, all of whom she declared were either bald or seventy, was a littlepropitiated by the uniforms; otherwise, she pronounced the party very dull.
He thinks these Labour men might have been easily propitiated without anything revolutionary.
On the African continent and elsewhere, as was the case amongst the ancient Jews, the demons are propitiated by human sacrifices.
Demons were propitiated with sacrifices of living animals, torn limb by limb and scattered (a Hecatean feast) about cross-roads.
This proceeding, so we learned, was to intimidate the "devilo" in case the feasts of the previous day had not propitiated him.
They became dread goddesses, who might to some extent be propitiated by exorcisms or expiatory rites.
The only way by which a Jew knew that God could be propitiated was by a sacrifice, and, in all probability, at that very hour the lamb for the daily burnt offering was being offered up on the altar in the temple.
In the Greek, the words mean literally, "God be propitiated to me, the sinner.
It would seem that the spirits of the departed were also propitiated at this season, and many curious traditions are connected with its observance.
Women were occasionally offered in sacrifice, but Tlaloc, the god of rain, could only be propitiated by the blood of young children and infants.
Religion is mainly ancestor worship or vague spirit worship; ghosts are propitiated with food.
The Dinka god, Dendid, is omnipotent, but so benevolent that he is not addressed in prayer, nor propitiated by sacrifice.
Their grandson propitiated the god Subrahmanya presiding over astronomy, and acquired the surname Nalika from his never-ceasing truthfulness.
They are propitiated at least once a year, the more virulent under the tree itself, and the rest in the house, generally on a Friday or Monday.
How were they to be propitiated as they themselves would wish?
This unruly race requires to be propitiated by presents of cloth; as many as 600 Tobes are annually distributed amongst them by the Amir.
Having thus propitiated this powerful chief, Soto remained here till March; when, being ready to advance on his expedition in search of some wealthy province, he demanded porters of the cacique.
He propitiated the servants of Montezuma by secretly releasing them, and added to his allies by enjoining every tribe he could reach to resist the Aztec collectors of tribute.
They were, in fact, evil spirits which had to be propitiatedand honoured in special rites.
Ayiyannar Deviyô is the god of tanks and he is propitiated under a tree by the bund of a tank, by throwing up in the air boiled milk in a hot state.
The gist of the story is that in the course of further evolution the Devas were to be propitiated by human sacrifice.
The Yakshas, before his time, had occupied Lanka or Atlantis under Kubera, but Ravana propitiated Siva by his loud hymns, and acquired easy mastery over his kindred elementals.
He is worshipped in sickness, as is Çiva, and propitiated with the sacrifice of a cock, without the intervention of any priest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propitiated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
