Definition of "propitiable" []

• Capable of being propitiated. (adjective)

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• "In that old dream-land of the Iliad such darkness is the work of a propitiable deity, and withdrawn at its pleasure; in life, it often persists obstinately."
• "For _the_ Son -- who is neither an elder nor a _younger_, the _eternal_ Son of the Father, one with him, his eye and his heart towards the lost -- is come into this world, although invisible and unnamed in the parable, to reveal the Father where he had been ever invisible, and where no man knew him: and he is to the children of the law and the curse, not only a living herald of the propitiable -- we shall rather say of the already propitiated -- Father, but the (that is _our_) propitiation itself, and the way whereby every one of us may come back to God. '"