propitiate
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This latest leisure equal lulls The beggar and his queen; Propitiate this democrat By summer's gracious mien.
From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily
Wipe off the past, as a forgotten thing, Propitiate virtue, by forsaking vice.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard
Propitiate then these holy powers, whose grove Received thee when first treading this their ground.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
This latest leisure equal lulls The beggar and his queen; Propitiate this democrat By summer's gracious mien.
From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series by Todd, Mabel Loomis
Propitiate, prō-pish′i-āt, v.t. to make propitious: to render favourable.—v.i. to make propitiation: to atone.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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