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expiate |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Expiate \Ex"pi*ate\, a. [L. expiatus,p. p] Terminated. [Obs.] --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}.] 1. 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. --Clarendon. 2. 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) From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: expiate v : make amends for "expiate one's sins" [syn: {aby}, {abye}, {atone}]
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