to propitiate the gods

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• propitiate — [prō pish′ē āt΄, prəpish′ē āt΄] vt. propitiated, propitiating [< L propitiatus, pp. of propitiare, to propitiate < propitius: see PROPITIOUS] to cause to become favorably inclined; win or regain the good will of; appease or conciliate… …   English World dictionary

• propitiate — pro•pi•ti•ate [[t]prəˈpɪʃ iˌeɪt[/t]] v. t. at•ed, at•ing to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate: tried to propitiate the angry gods[/ex] • Etymology: 1635–45; < L propitiātus, ptp. of propitiāre, v. der. ofpropitius propitious; see… …   From formal English to slang

• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm — infobox Book | name = The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm title orig = Unknown translator = image caption = author = Nancy Farmer illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Children s, Science fiction novel …   Wikipedia

• Sacrifice of the Mass — • The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used the expression the breaking of bread (fractio panis) or… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• CALCHAS —    the soothsayer who accompanied Agamemnon to the siege of Troy; enjoined the sacrifice of Iphigenia to propitiate the gods, foretold the length or the war, and advised the construction of the wooden horses, a device by means of which Troy was… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• human sacrifice —    the dismissal of employees    Punning on ancient rites to propitiate the gods:     Sometimes human sacrifice is appropriate, but we have not quite reached that point yet. (Daily Telegraph, 20 November 1998 shares in a company had hit a… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …   Universalium

• maya — mayan, adj. /mah yah, yeuh/, n. Hinduism. 1. the power, as of a god, to produce illusions. 2. the production of an illusion. 3. (in Vedantic philosophy) the illusion of the reality of sensory experience and of the experienced qualities and… …   Universalium

• Maya — /mah yeuh/, n., pl. Mayas, (esp. collectively) Maya, adj. n. 1. a member of a major pre Columbian civilization of the Yucatán Peninsula that reached its peak in the 9th century A.D. and produced magnificent ceremonial cities with pyramids, a… …   Universalium

• Hinduism — /hin dooh iz euhm/, n. the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many… …   Universalium

• Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism — A ceremony at the annual Prometheia festival of the Greek polytheistic group Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes, June 2006. Ancient Greek religion …   Wikipedia