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Definition of Propitiators

Propitiator
Propitiator Pro*pi"ti*a`tor, n. [L.] One who propitiates or appeases.

Meaning of Propitiators from wikipedia

- Propitiation is the act of appeasing or making well-disposed a deity, thus incurring divine favor or avoiding divine retribution. It is related to the...
- administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities. Their office or position is the "priesthood"...
- Jesus' death and resurrection. His death was an expiation as well as a propitiation, and by Christ's blood peace is made between God and man. By grace, through...
- possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least...
- of their villages from bandits, epidemics, and natural disasters when propitiated, failing which they are believed to cause these afflictions. A gramadevata...
- Bhatta had performed the ceremony at an inau****ious hour and neglected to propitiate the spirits adored in the Tantra. That was why, he said, the queen mother...
- Esoteric transmission Evocation Exorcism Initiation Invocation Meditation Propitiation Rite of p****age Ritual purification Sacrifice Societies A∴A∴ Élus Coëns...
- lasting marriages. After their departure, the richer women of the village propitiated the couple, offering them a choice of dishes. Shiva asked his consort...
- Lactantius, Divine Institutes 1.11.1. Hewitt, Joseph William (1908). "The Propitiation of Zeus". Harvard Studies in classical Philology. 19: 61–120. doi:10...
- Hiranyakashipu decided to gain a boon of invulnerability by performing tapas to propitiate Brahma. After his subjugation of the three worlds, he was slain by the...