Propitiated vs Appeased - What's the difference?
propitiated | appeased |
(propitiate)
(dated) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.
* Alexander Pope
(appease)
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.
As verbs the difference between propitiated and appeased
is that propitiated is (propitiate) while appeased is (appease).propitiated
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(head)propitiate
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(propitiat)- Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, / The god propitiate , and the pest assuage.
Synonyms
* appeaseDerived terms
* propitiationappeased
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(head)appease
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(appeas)- to appease the tumult of the ocean
- `First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'
- They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.