having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation;
"expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice"
propitiatory 片语
片语
ingratiating逢迎的,讨好的;迷人的,吸引人的
conciliatory安抚的;调和的;调停的
propitiatory 例句
英汉例句
the grandees took refuge in their country houses—it was such a group whom boccaccio imagined telling each other the tales in his 「decameron」—or hastened to promise propitiatory legacies to the church.
he purchased no propitiatory nosegay on the present occasion, as he was going to a place of business;
这次他没有买送礼的花束,因为他是到一个办公的地方去;
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.