Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or offered in propitiation; conciliatory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the power to make propitious; effecting or intended to effect propitiation: as, a propitiatory sacrifice.
- noun In Jewish antiquity, the mercy-seat; the lid or cover of the ark of the covenant, lined within and without with plates of gold.
- noun A propitiation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Jewish Antiq.) The mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the propitiated Jehovah.
- adjective Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective intended to
propitiate ,reconcile ,expiate orappease ;conciliatory
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation
- adjective intended to reconcile or appease
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Examples
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And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the covenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the propitiatory, that is over the ark between the two cherubims, and from this place he spoke to him.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision
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A propitiatory ... a covering for the ark: called a propitiatory, or mercy seat, because the Lord, who was supposed to sit there upon the wings of the cherubims, with the ark for his footstool, from thence shewed mercy.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision
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A propitiatory ... a covering for the ark: called a propitiatory, or mercy seat, because the Lord, who was supposed to sit there upon the wings of the cherubims, with the ark for his footstool, from thence shewed mercy.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the covenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the propitiatory, that is over the ark between the two cherubims, and from this place he spoke to him.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and the propitiatory, that is over it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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A propitiatory ... a covering for the ark: called a propitiatory, or mercy seat, because the Lord, who was supposed to sit there upon the wings of the cherubims, with the ark for his footstool, from thence shewed mercy.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the covenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the propitiatory, that is over the ark between the two cherubims, and from this place he spoke to him.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and the propitiatory, that is over it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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