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expiate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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)
Expiate \Ex"pi*ate\, a. [L. expiatus,p. p]
Terminated. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600 (OED 2nd ed. print entry has a typographical error in the earliest date), from Latin expiatus, past participle of expiare "to make amends, atone for" (see expiation). Related: Expiable (1560s); expiated; expiating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive or intransitive English) To atone or make reparation for. 2 (context transitive English) To make amends or pay the penalty for. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To relieve or cleanse of guilt. 4 To purify with sacred rites.
WordNet
Usage examples of "expiate".
Luke ascends to David through Nathan, through whose namesake, the prophet, God expiated his sin.
Thus the recognition of ghosts or spirits as the sources of sickness and death has as its immediate effect the sparing of an immense number of lives of men and women, who on the theory of death by sorcery would have perished by violence to expiate their imaginary crime.
The Swedenborgian doctrine concerning Christ and his mission is that he was the infinite God incarnate, not incarnate for the purpose of expiating human sin and purchasing a ransom for the lost by vicarious sufferings, but for the sake of suppressing the rampant power of the hells, weakening the influx of the infernal spirits, setting an example to men, and revealing many important truths.
To expiate the crime of rebellion Hamburg was required to pay an extraordinary contribution of 48,000,000 francs, and Lubeck a contribution of 6,000,000.
We see this truth glimmering in the doctrine, taught in the Mysteries, that though slight and ordinary offences could be expiated by penances, repentance, acts of beneficence, and prayers, grave crimes were mortal sins, beyond the reach of all such remedies.
Thus was it done, and the soul of Valkyr went into eternal imprisonment, to live through ten million human lives until it was deemed that he had expiated his crime.
I spent fourteen hours in bed, of which four at least were devoted to expiating the insult I had offered to love.
You have offended God and the Virgin His Mother, and I will not receive your oath till you have expiated your sins.
But Pilate attended to the matter of expiating his sin while he was alive, whereas St.
Moreover, the offence is one which may be expiated in a number of ways, provided the parties come to an agreement.
Honourable salary-man had gone to honourable ancestors - his unknown sin expiated as his calcined bones sank slowly down into the stomach of the world.
Honourable salary-man had gone to honourable ancestors—his unknown sin expiated as his calcined bones sank slowly down into the stomach of the world.
Albius of Cales and Atrius of Umbria with the other ringleaders in this detestable mutiny will expiate their crime with their blood.
The Romans had despised their temporal prince: they submitted with grief and terror to the censures of their spiritual father: their guilt was expiated by penance, and the banishment of the seditious preacher was the price of their absolution.
The Romans had despised their temporal prince: they submitted with grief and terror to the censures of their spiritual father: their guilt was expiated by penance, and the banishment of the seditious preacher was the price of their absolution.