to please and make calm a god or person who is annoyed with you使息怒;勸解;撫慰
In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.在那個時候,人們可能會祭獻一只山羊或綿羊以祈求發怒的神靈息怒。
The radicals in the party were clearly sacked to propitiate the conservative core.開除政黨中的激進分子顯然是爲了安撫保守的核心成員。