a. | 1. | Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; |
n. | 1. | (Jewish Antiq.) The mercy seat; - so called because a symbol of the propitiated Jehovah. |
Adj. | 1. | propitiatory - having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation; "expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice" |
2. | propitiatory - intended to reconcile or appease; "sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture" Synonyms: propitiative |