The word "propitiate" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to make peace or to appease, usually in the context of pacifying a god or spirit. You could use it in the following example sentence: The high priest propitiated the angry god by offering a sacrifice.
In Asian religions, we are urged to forgive not so much to propitiate a Deity but more because grudge-bearing is bad for our own spiritual health.
The advances of two or three points, upon the day when Gould's death was announced, in the quotations upon the securities of every one of the corporations with which his name was particularly identified, shows that his death was regarded as the removal of a danger even from these corporations...It ought not to pass unnoticed that Gould never sought to propitiate public opinion.
She advises passing motorists to propitiate the saint with a modest gift of rupees.
Thus, it has been considered necessary in times of crisis, individual or communal, to offer sacrifices to propitiate sacred powers and to wipe out offenses (or at least neutralize their effects) and restore the relationship.
Hence, there were numerous specific prohibitions on acts believed to offend them and a number of observances designed to propitiate them, chief of which was the first-salmon ceremony.
This uncharacteristic capitulation to the Soviet dictator in one of the poems Akhmatova declares: "Where Stalin is, there is Freedom, Peace, and the grandeur of the earth was motivated by Akhmatova's desire to propitiate Stalin and win the freedom of her son, who again had been arrested in 1949 and exiled to Siberia.
Over the past 18 years, the Dalai Lama at first gently, and recently more forcefully, has urged Tibetans to give up the practice of propitiating Shugden.
In the Vedas, Vishnu, with his three strides, established the three worlds (heaven, atmosphere, and earth); Rudra-Shiva is a mysterious god who must be propitiated.
The images are generally located near the entrance to Jain temples and can be propitiated for aid in worldly matters.
Influenced by the bhakti movement, Ramanuja had admitted two ways of emancipation: in addition to the meditative method of the highest insight (jnana) into the oneness of soul and God, which destroys the residues of karma and propitiates God to win his grace, there is the way of bhakti.
Since antiquity, the solar manifestations of the summer and winter solstices and the vernal and autumnal equinoxes have been bound up with the idea of sowing and reaping, death and rebirth, year's end and year's opening; at such times it was traditionally believed that supernatural forces were in control and should be propitiated.
