propitiate

And when those two brothers had arrived there, they began a course of fasting and asceticism to propitiate her.

"A cantankerous old woman," I remember he had called her on that occasion, and had made no further effort to propitiate her.

While, to propitiate intending settlers, he said he had been to Greenland, and so the land got a sunny name.

I was told it was a cholera goddess, and the dancing was to propitiate her and drive cholera out of the village.