The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propitiate \Pro*pi"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Propitiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Propitiating.] [L. propitiatus, p. p. of propitiare to propitiate, fr. propitius favorable. See Propitious.] To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.
Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage,
The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of propitiate English)
Usage examples of "propitiating".
Pohsit, sagan in Skiljan’s loghouse, and her like visited Machen Cave regularly, propitiating shadows and the dead, refreshing spells which bound the gateway against those.
Tradermales say that in some cities meth dare not admit they exist even though every move and decision must be made with an eye to propitiating them.
The answer, the secret: the agency was Scott's revenge, the revenge of an anonymous but, like so many, arrogant and driven fan upon his distant masters by engendering and propitiating a magnificent system which in turn reduced the writers to anonymity?