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expiated
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Expiate \Ex"pi*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expiating.] [L. expiatus, p. p. of expiare to expiate; ex out + piare to seek to appease, to purify with sacred rites, fr. pius pious. See Pious.]
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To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.
To expiate his treason, hath naught left.
--Milton.The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
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To purify with sacred rites. [Obs.]
Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.
--Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version)
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vb. (en-past of: expiate)
Usage examples of "expiated".
The pontiffs decreed that these portents should be expiated by the sacrifice of oxen.
Notwithstanding this liberal offer, it does not appear, that any human victims expiated with their blood the sins of the Roman people.
According to the mildest rules of ecclesiastical discipline, which were established in the fourth century, the crime of homicide was expiated by the penitence of twenty years: ^97 and as it was impossible, in the period of human life, to purge the accumulated guilt of the massacre of Thessalonica, the murderer should have been excluded from the holy communion till the hour of his death.
The act of sacrificing, and the practice of divination by the entrails of the victim, are declared (without any regard to the object of the inquiry) a crime of high treason against the state, which can be expiated only by the death of the guilty.
The disgrace was expiated by a more noble alliance with a princess of China.
Every sin was expiated, every engagement was dissolved: the vow of celibacy was superseded by the indulgence of nature.
These portents were expiated by sacrifices of full-grown victims, and a day was appointed for special intercessions at all the shrines.
These portents were expiated by the sacrifice of full-grown victims, and special intercessions for the whole of one day were ordered by the pontiffs.
For the crime is of such a nature that had it involved the whole army it could only have been expiated by a frightful sacrifice.
Then he felt as if he were tearing his own vitals, when with groans and tears he expiated either the thoughtlessness or the guilt of 8000 men at the cost of thirty lives.
We implore you therefore, senators, by all you hold sacred, not to employ these men in any military service till you have expiated their crime, lest their sacrilege should be atoned for, not by their blood alone but also by disaster to the commonwealth.
These portents were expiated by sacrifices of full-grown animals, the college of pontiffs intimated the deities to whom they were to be offered.
The latter portent was expiated, according to the traditional usage, by continuous prayer and sacrifice for nine days, the others by sacrifice of full-grown victims.
I believe that the unhappy man has suffered, that he has severely expiated his faults, whatever they may have been, and that the wish to unburden himself stifles him.
There had been some mournful past, perhaps expiated in the sight of men, but from which his conscience had not yet absolved him.