A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Propitiatorie, Propiciatorie, n. and adj. [e.m.E. and ME propiciatori (Cursor M.), -ie, -y, propitiatorie (1561) n. = the mercy seat (a1300), a propitiation (1561), adj. = that propitiates (1551); late L. propitiātōrium place of atonement, propitiation, subst. use of neut. sing. of late L. propitiātōrius atoning (whence the adj. use). So OF propiciatorie (a1200 in Littré), mod. F. propitiatoire Propitiatore adj.] a. noun. Only in Nisbet, after Purvey. The covering of the Jewish Ark of the Covenant, the mercy-seat. b. adj. That tends to propitiate; expiatory. —c1520-c1535 Nisbet Hebrews ix 5.
On quhilk thingis war cherubynis of glorie, ouirschadowing the propitiatorie —1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 168/20.
This godlie doctour and bischop affirmis the sacrifice of the mes to be propiciatorie 1568 Knox VI 492.
For they beleved the messe to be a sacrifice propiciatorie for the sinnes of the quick and the dead
