placating's Usage Examples:

members by presenting them auspicious items and praying for longevity by placating the god of death.

Latin for "bridge builder", a possible allusion to a very early role in placating the gods and spirits associated with the Tiber River, for instance.

land untilled and devoting it to a supernatural being in the hopes of placating it and ensuring good fortune.

Spring line of polishes, and handles her celebrity clients all while placating her trouble-making staff.

Here Jeremiel was responsible for placating the righteous souls awaiting the Lord who resided there.

People would also try to ward off destructive summer hailstorms by placating German with a ritual performed on Christmas Eve.

millions of Pounds sterling was caused to local businesses, but after placating the unhappy soldiers, they were repatriated to South Africa.

northern district of Ireland, in which post he played an important part in placating the people of Belfast during the Irish Rebellion, and then became Adjutant-General.

Since their rituals included placating spirits and preventing plagues, heike music became a vehicle for placating lingering, resentful Heike spirits.

kava into the sea, which, it would seem, was just the right idea for placating fish-gods; the monster slowly submerged, the breeze gradually gathered.

the Roman poet Juvenal characterized the imperial leadership's way of placating the masses.

became prime minister, and was faulted by traditional historians for placating Emperor Yang and not reacting properly to agrarian rebellions.

The disc was Apple Records' way of placating record buyers for the high retail price of All Things Must Pass, which.

Dlugash allegedly shot the dead body out of fear, and with the hope of placating the actual killer by showing solidarity.

Ramachandran (1988) was considered to have been aimed at placating the voters for the upcoming assembly election and posthumous awards of.

of these, including species in tribe Clavigerini, are myrmecophagous, placating their hosts with glandular secretions while eating the brood Staphylinidae.

Mudang performing a ritual placating the angry spirits of the dead.

'killed off by silent contempt' (mokusatsu) reflected this necessity of placating the extreme position of the army.

Synonyms:

appeasing; placatory; placative; conciliative; conciliatory;

Antonyms:

hostile; antipathetic; antipathetical; uncompromising; antagonistic;