Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet APPEASE

Definition av APPEASE

1. blidka, stilla, lugna, släcka

Exempel på hur man kan använda APPEASE i en mening

• During the initial days of Ahmed III's reign, significant efforts were made to appease the janissaries.
• Queen Cassiopeia understands that chaining Andromeda to a rock as a human sacrifice is what will appease Poseidon.
• Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group or national loyalties in order to achieve a desired result.
• In 1774, the Quebec Act guaranteed French settlers as British subjects rights to French law, the Roman Catholic faith and the French language to appease them at a moment when the English-speaking colonies to the south were on the verge of revolting in the American Revolution.
• Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure, spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life.
• The Askafroa was thought to be a malicious creature that did much damage, and to appease her, it was necessary to make a sacrifice to her on Ash Wednesday.
• The father was a houngan, and he consulted his candle on whether the girl could be returned by performing a ceremony to appease Mombu.
• While the town's name was originally changed from Pleasant Hill to avoid confusion with another town called Pleasant Hill on the rail line, the name was changed from Wingate to Whitlock to appease the discontent of John C Wingate's political adversaries.
• To try to appease him, the main chief agreed to sacrifice his daughter, who willingly threw herself into the lake and drowned.
• Many residents, aware that the soldiers would pillage and loot for supplies, left milk and other supplies outside their homes, hoping to appease the soldiers.
• It replaced the Jacobean structure that was once the home of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, whom Charles I sacrificed in 1641 to appease Parliament.
• Lemuria (festival), in Roman religion, a domestic ritual to appease the unwholesome and malevolent spectres of the restless dead (lemures).
• He was instructed to appease the reformists, led by Louis-Joseph Papineau, without giving them any real power.
• The plan included a large building that he envisioned as a future parliament, redesignated as an art gallery to appease the doubters.
• The bear's spirit had to be told that it had fallen into a pit or that it had otherwise killed itself by accident, not by the hunters, to appease the bear's spirit so that it would not be offended, and possibly exact revenge upon the hunters.
• The Henotikon endorsed the condemnations of Eutyches and Nestorius made at Chalcedon and explicitly approved the twelve anathemas of Cyril of Alexandria, but avoided any definitive statement on whether Christ had one or two natures, attempting to appease both sides of the dispute.
• To appease public outrage over Boyle's defense of the Black Panthers, McGucken cancelled a yearly seminar that Boyle would deliver.
• According to various narratives surrounding the figure, Detroit's founder Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac was told by a fortuneteller to appease the Nain Rouge, but he instead attacked it with his cane and shouted, "Get out of my way, you red imp!" As a consequence, a string of bad luck befell Cadillac; he was charged with abuse of power and reassigned to Louisiana, later returning to France where he was briefly imprisoned and eventually lost his fortune.
• Attempts to appease Quebec's enduring resentment and demands resulted in the Meech Lake Accord, which failed when the provinces of Manitoba and Newfoundland were not able to ratify the document by the deadline established.
• According to the architectural historian Robert Hillenbrand, the building of a large scale mosque in Medina, the original center of the caliphate, was an "acknowledgement" by al-Walid of "his own roots and those of Islam itself" and possibly an attempt to appease Medinan resentment at the loss of the city's political importance to Syria under the Umayyads.

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