2 words for the day.
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scottobearpropitiate \pro-PISH-ee-ayt\, transitive verb:
To render favorably inclined; to appease; to conciliate (one offended).
ex -
Yet the Fairy Bridge... didn't get its name for nothing. Here the locals lift a hand ever so slightly and mutter "Hello, little people," to propitiate the fairies underneath.
--Helen Gibson, "Rewards and Fairies," Time Europe, April 30, 2001
Propitiate derives from Latin propitius, "favorable."
chaplet \CHAP-lit\ noun
1. A wreath or garland worn on the head.
2. A string of beads.
[Middle English chapelet, wreath; from Old French, diminutive of chapel hat, from Medieval Latin cappellus, from Late Latin cappa, cap.]
"What was on Hannibal's mind as he drove his elephants over the Alps?
Looking good, apparently, because on Hannibal's head was a wig, which he wore into battle to cover his lack of locks. Julius Caesar used his chaplet for the same purpose, the comb-over having not yet been discovered."
To render favorably inclined; to appease; to conciliate (one offended).
ex -
Yet the Fairy Bridge... didn't get its name for nothing. Here the locals lift a hand ever so slightly and mutter "Hello, little people," to propitiate the fairies underneath.
--Helen Gibson, "Rewards and Fairies," Time Europe, April 30, 2001
Propitiate derives from Latin propitius, "favorable."
chaplet \CHAP-lit\ noun
1. A wreath or garland worn on the head.
2. A string of beads.
[Middle English chapelet, wreath; from Old French, diminutive of chapel hat, from Medieval Latin cappellus, from Late Latin cappa, cap.]
"What was on Hannibal's mind as he drove his elephants over the Alps?
Looking good, apparently, because on Hannibal's head was a wig, which he wore into battle to cover his lack of locks. Julius Caesar used his chaplet for the same purpose, the comb-over having not yet been discovered."
