(a.) Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze.
(a.) Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a person or a divinity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence this is a particularly propitious moment to review the issues raised by this book and the treatment it describes.
(2) a highly propitious system in which to study eukaryotic cellular morphogenesis.
(3) Another former shadow cabinet member said it was difficult to imagine a less propitious set of circumstances for a new leader of the opposition in parliament.
(4) Physiologic magnetic fields on the order of magnitude 10(-8) gauss have been unified with their propitiators: quantum genetic particles, the gravitational potential of which is about a few ergs.
(5) Hardly the most propitious moment for the “post-Blairite” wing of the party to strike against their anti-war leader.
(6) No political party can have gone into the final week of a byelection campaign in less propitious circumstances than the Liberal Democrats .
(7) A previous organotypic culture of rat's superior ganglion is propitious to the survey of grafts.
(8) In addition, the data confirm a classic observation: in comparison with intact families, disunited families are underprivileged in relation to living conditions, deficient in relation to psychosocial functioning, and propitious to behaviour problems and delinquent activity.
(9) Physiologic magnetic fields of the order 10(-8) gauss have been unified with their propitiators: quantum genetic particles, the gravitational potential of which is about an erg.
(10) A new surgical technique for the correction of longitudinal median and paramedian incisional hernia uses the hernial sac itself, a tissue of good resistance and healing properties, to cover raw areas, remake the abdominal wall anatomy, propitiate tensionless sutures and render unnecessary the use of prosthetic material, even in the largest hernia.
(11) A true 1980s believer who was there at the time, he is nonetheless sharp enough to recognise that these are not propitious times for pointing the finger at an enemy within.
(12) It seems that the time is propitious to examine prehospital determinants of nosocomial infection, with the goal of further preventing these life-threatening events in the hospital.
(13) Because of this stability, SHP-77 appears to represent a propitious cell line for in vitro and in vivo biological and therapeutic studies of this type of lung cancer.
(14) In these mice, a high fat diet is more propitious to fat accretion than a high-carbohydrate diet.
(15) Healthy development depends on both a propitious environment and the action of adolescents themselves.
(16) Furthermore, we demonstrate how fundamental thermal noise is a concomitant manifestation with weak electric and magnetic fields being propitiated by terrestrial and inertial interactions of the human being with the geomagnetic field and flux densities permeating outer space.
(17) coli L-asparaginase by alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) was observed under conditions otherwise propitious to the dissociation of the tetrameric molecule into inactive subunits, i.e.
(18) This effect is similar to that of the methylxanthines inhibiting phosphodiesterase propitiating the increase of CAMP and favouring bronchodilatation.
(19) Although exceptional in terms of the extensive use of the neuroleptic in question, this possibility indicates the need for monitoring of the duration of QT before and during treatment with droperidol and for prescription of the drug to be avoided in circumstances known to be propitious to this arrhythmia (bradycardia, hypokalemia, anti-arrhythmic drugs).
(20) In the first group (A), partial placental transfusion was propitiated and in the second group (B), the umbilical cord was ligated previous to the first inspiration.
Salubrious
Definition:
(a.) Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A naturalised British subject, he spent most of his working life in London and was frequently seen at the most salubrious bars and restaurants, often in the company of beautiful young women such as Kate Moss, who he once painted.
(2) Never salubrious – Pulp's Jarvis Cocker even wrote a song about his time there in which he simply repeats the lines "Oooh – it's a mess alright – it's Mile End" over and over again.
(3) Canteen food is of central importance for two reasons: first of all, it is possible to supply salubrious food that is well-balanced according to modern guidelines worked out by nutritionists; secondly, modern canteen catering can exercise an influence on the general attitude to food.
(4) I don’t know how many hotels Hunt has stayed in, but my guess is that most will have been a little more salubrious than the average care home.
(5) Second, despite numerous claims, in the context of behavioral or psychosomatic medicine, that a joyful, optimistic, or humorous attitude can render a salubrious effect, almost to the extent of preventing illness and curing physical disease, the jury is still out and issuing dire warnings regarding too ready acceptance of this largely anecdotal evidence.
(6) A healthy style of living involves salubrious behaviour and facilitates the health promoting shaping of living conditions.
(7) The Gautrain will also connect with Park Station in Johannesburg's less salubrious downtown.
(8) This salubrious state is attributed to the preservation of a small segment of stomach which enabled the intrinsic factor in the gastric mucosa to participate in and contribute to the normal hemopoietic physiological process.
(9) Poynter, a Chelsea FC season ticket holder, is a former director of the salubrious Royal Automobile Club, the gentleman’s club on London’s Pall Mall.
(10) Les Misérables , Hugo's tale of working-class suffering and strife played out in the sewers and backstreets of Paris's least salubrious districts, was published in 1862.
(11) Problems are shortness of information and instruction of the patient, use of special vocabulary, inadequate reaction to patient's anxiety and insufficient mediation of salubrious references by the doctor.
(12) When distressed couples are relatively stable and interested in effecting a harmonious modus vivendi, didactic training will usually achieve salubrious outcomes.
(13) A "small mortgage" stretched to a one bedroom in the least salubrious area of London's zone two, which we were assured by the estate agent was "up and coming".
(14) The bubble pushed house prices up into less salubrious areas and into the commuter belt.
(15) The salubrious effect of regular physical activity on reducing the risk of coronary heart disease appears to exist even at low levels of physical activity.
(16) These data support the hypothesis that naloxone exerts its salubrious effects in canine hemorrhagic shock by acting at cardiac opiate receptors.
(17) Berman had long since left the Bronx for the more salubrious life of the upper west side, but he found a renewed life in the streets there and he did not hesitate to celebrate it.
(18) Mortality occurs at older ages in our growing and salubrious population.
(19) I said farewell to Rogério at the summit of Rocinha, and in less than five minutes I was walking back down through Alto Gávea, Rio's most salubrious suburb.
(20) The area is not a salubrious one: his neighbours are a methadone clinic, a halfway house and the Rescue Mission, the city's main homeless shelter.