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Example sentences for "propitiatory"

Lexicographically close words:
propionic; propitiate; propitiated; propitiating; propitiation; propitious; propitiously; propitius; propius; propolis
  1. The propitiatory was the symbol of expiation, but even after the introduction of the Day of Atonement the atoning blood was only carried into it once a year.

  2. Their presence on the propitiatory was meant to reveal the glory of the gospel.

  3. The same commenced his propitiatory remarks by assuring the proprietor of Brookfield that he, the spokesman, and every man present, knew they had taken a liberty in coming upon Squire Pole's grounds without leave or warning.

  4. Per favour of this propitiatory offering, and of a promise of half a dozen pair of real Limerick gloves to Miss Pratt--a promise which Pratt clearly comprehended to be a conditional promise--the grand object was at length accomplished.

  5. His goddess was not to be appeased by any propitiatory or expiatory sacrifice.

  6. He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger seven times towards the propitiatory to the east.

  7. Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half.

  8. And to depart from injustice, is to offer a propitiatory sacrifice for injustices, and a begging of pardon for sins.

  9. Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered.

  10. And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the ark of the testimony, in the holy of holies.

  11. And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.

  12. Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to to be covered.

  13. He spoke in his most propitiatory tones, but the committee was still stirred.

  14. Various propitiatory ceremonies are performed by specialists to secure its good-will.

  15. If a child is born with the cord round its neck like a garland, it is believed to be inauspicious for its uncle, who is not allowed to see it for ten days, or even longer, and then a propitiatory ceremony has to be performed.

  16. Before I set out on the second leg of my voyage from the foot of the Arrow Lakes, I threw the river god all that was left of that bedraggled pair of jodpurs as a propitiatory offering.

  17. It was in the course of the next day or two that I made a propitiatory offering to the River God in the form of the remnants of the jodpurs he had tried so hard to snatch from me at Rock Slide Rapids.

  18. He considered them to have been of young persons probably interred alive as a funeral or propitiatory sacrifice to some tribal chief, or else to a presiding deity of the dolmen.

  19. With the same propitiatory ends in view as modern Celts now have in offering food to fairies, ancient peoples, e.

  20. Not only is the worship of this order of Phi widespread in Siam, but to every other order of Phi altars are erected and propitiatory offerings made by all classes of the Siamese people.

  21. It is not strange that among a nation which adored the sun, the chief ceremony should have been the Sun Dance, at once a propitiatory offering to the Great Spirit and a public test of metal before a young man could become a brave.

  22. This was supposed to be not only an expression of peace among men and nations, but a propitiatory offering to the Manitous, or guardian spirits, and to the Master of Life.

  23. Once in view of the splendid, living masses covering the green plains as with a giant sable robe, they halted for the pipe-bearer, the representative of the Magi, to perform the propitiatory rite of smoking.

  24. The death of Christ as propitiatory } tested by } 2.

  25. He is our representative as Priest, because He is both man and more than man, and can therefore perform for us what we could not and cannot perform for ourselves, in offering the perfect propitiatory sacrifice.

  26. And this view, though by no means to the exclusion of the propitiatory aspect, is amply justified by the Bible.

  27. This is not the place for a full discussion of justifying faith: it is enough to indicate what seems to be its relation to the Atonement, as being man's share in the propitiatory work of Christ.

  28. Or, to put the question rather differently, what was it that gave to the death of Christ its propitiatory value?

  29. Rogations, prayers, fastings, and propitiatory masses were performed ceaselessly, not only on board the Armada, but all over Spain.

  30. But from the treatment of the victims both before and after death it appears that the custom cannot be explained as merely a propitiatory sacrifice.

  31. So he was terribly affrighted, and went out, and built a propitiatory monument of that fright he had been in, and this of white stone, at the mouth of the sepulchre, and at a great expense also.

  32. So he was terribly affrighted, and went out, and built a propitiatory monument of that fright he had been in; and this of white stone, at the mouth of the sepulchre, and at a great expense also.

  33. The Brahmanas performed propitiatory ceremonies for him.

  34. The Rishis, filled with fear, became agitated, and desirous of their own good as also of all creatures, performed propitiatory rites.

  35. Seizing upon whatever he prizes most, his food, his raiment, he rushes forth and hurls his propitiatory offering heavenward, earthward, whithersoever his frenzied fancy dictates.

  36. To this cross the natives prayed for rain, and in times of drought went in procession to offer vahomche, as they called the symbol, quails and other propitiatory gifts.

  37. They each also brought, as propitiatory gifts, a hog and bread-fruit ready dressed--both very acceptable articles at that time.

  38. He even smiled a rusty but propitiatory smile.

  39. Of course, I can see you're thinking all this pretty tolerably weird and all that," he proceeded, in a propitiatory voice.

  40. This is supposed to have been a propitiatory offering to the dog-shaped guardians of the roadway threshold, known also among the Indo-Aryans and the Assyro-Babylonians.

  41. In Japan, the threshold of the door is sprinkled with salt, after a funeral, and as a propitiatory sacrifice in time of danger.

  42. Leibnitz on the Mass as a Propitiatory Sacrifice Extracts from "A Troubled Heart" Eugénie de Guerin and her Brother Maurice Passages from the "Via Media" Newman.

  43. In the third Canon of the twenty-fourth session, it defines "that the sacrifice of the Mass is propitiatory both for the living and the dead for sins, punishments and satisfactions.

  44. Here, then, is enunciated in plain terms, the doctrine of the eucharistic oblation being a propitiatory sacrifice.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propitiatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apologetic; ascetic; cleansing; compensatory; conciliatory; divine; godlike; godly; heavenly; incarnate; lustral; mediatory; mollifying; pacific; pacifying; penitential; propitiatory; purgative; purgatorial; purifying; redeeming; redemptive; reparative; repentant; sacrificial; soothing; superhuman; supernatural; transcendent