Definitionn. the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity
Last update: July 5, 2015
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100,109, and Prolegomena), regarding the Anthesteria as primarily a festival of all souls, the object of which was the expulsion of ancestral ghosts by means of placation, explains lrLOoe'yca as the feast of the opening of the graves (irieos meaning a large urn used for burial purposes), x6€s as the day of libations, and XuTpoc as the day of the grave-holes (not "pots," which is xbTpat), in point of time really anterior to the ir.Oociyia. [Please select]
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As a physiologist he believed in the artificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative during somnolence. [Please select]
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"I know what you mean, Lou," he said, with an affectionate attempt at placation. [Please select]
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But she proceeded to punish him roundly, until he gave over all attempts at placation, and whirled in a circle, his head away from her, his shoulders receiving the punishment of her teeth. [Please select]
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