English Dictionary

propitiate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌpɹəˈpɪʃieɪt/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit. / (transitive) To make propitious or favourable. / (intransitive) To make propitiation.

日本語の意味

（特に神や霊などに対して）なだめて機嫌を取る、または和解を図ること。 / （事態や状況を）好都合に、または有利に働くようにすること。 / （自動詞として）なだめる、和解に導く行為を行うこと。

They offered fresh milk to propitiate the river spirit after the flood.

彼らは洪水の後、川の精霊をなだめるために新鮮な牛乳を捧げた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.

Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.

意味（2）

(transitive) To make propitious or favourable.

But what was that compared to the pleasure of gazing on him, and listening to his words of pity or of praise! to witnessing the sparkling of his eyes when he gazed on his boy, and sought, by every possible medium, to coax him to his arms, a task not to be achieved in a moment; or in listening to that praise of Lord Allerton, which was likely to propitiate Mary in his favour!

意味（3）

(intransitive) To make propitiation.

propitiates （ present singular third-person ）

propitiating （ participle present ）

propitiated （ participle past ）

propitiated （ past ）