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Перевод: propitiate

[глагол]
успокаивать; умиротворять; примирять; умилостивлять; умилостивить

Тезаурус:

1. Government in the New Style consists in gambling with the interests of the nation to propitiate the various mutinous factions which hold the balance in the House of Commons.
2. Your reasons for this colossal exploitation of what is to you hi-tech may be quite divorced from ours ( we want to look for black holes, whereas you want to ascertain the precise time you should sacrifice a virgin in order to propitiate the gods), but the principle is much the same.
3. Therefore it becomes possible at last to read and evaluate what was earnestly planned, executed, fought for, tinkered with in a vain attempt to propitiate Katkov (but also, as we shall see, for another reason), and finally surrendered.
4. "Our philosophy has become emasculated by the anxiety to propitiate deterministic sciences.
5. To propitiate him, the people offered Lung roasted swallows, hearts and red lotus blossoms.
6. Hence Hercules remained the Deity to propitiate in order to find treasures, whose god was Dis (identical with Pluto) who carries off Proserpine (another name for Ceres or grain) to the underworld described by the poets, according to whom its first name was Styx, its second the land of the dead, its third the depth of furrows
7. Ritual offerings of meat, spices and wines were made by the mortal family to propitiate the restless spirit.
8. It seemed to me that the Quirkes gloried in the poetry of paganism, but were not true pagans, eager to propitiate feared gods with flame and sacrifice.
9. This led him to take quite seriously all the deities he sanctioned in his domains, to propitiate all of them, to accord all of them a measure of genuine veneration.
10. It was a relief not to have to soothe and propitiate an experienced detective who could hardly be expected to welcome a commander from the new C1 squad intruding on his patch.
11. The pagans think it important to propitiate gods with sacrifices, yet they have no idea which is the most powerful of them, so that they might be offending the one who most needs propitiating by paying him insufficient attention.
12. Belief in these three Pates is said to have been very deep-rooted in Greece, and apparently survived in parts of the country almost till the present day, where birth customs included rites to propitiate these goddesses.
13. He recognized, with a familiar confusion of self-disgust and hopelessness, that he was telling more than he ought in his usual attempt to propitiate her, to get her on his side.