The Indian, who prayed there daily, was propitiated.

the Minotaur, a hideous teratoid monster who has to be secreted in a special labyrinth and propitiated with human flesh

A propitiatory victim sacrificed so that the world will be bright

Gregor must now try to propitiate his father

I propitiated the knife-wielding deities with presents of books.

The emptiness of contact thus has a propitious technical function as a test of the system itself