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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Expiation \Ex`pi*a"tion\, n. [L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation] 1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. --W. Irving. 2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement. Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats. --Milton. 3. An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] --Hayward. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: expiation n 1: compensation for a wrong "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store" [syn: {atonement}, {satisfaction}] 2: the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing [syn: {atonement}, {propitiation}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Expiation Guilt is said to be expiated when it is visited with punishment falling on a substitute. Expiation is made for our sins when they are punished not in ourselves but in another who consents to stand in our room It is that by which reconciliation is effected. Sin is thus said to be covered" by vicarious satisfaction. The cover or lid of the ark is termed in the LXX. hilasterion that which covered or shut out the claims and demands of the law against the sins of God's people, whereby he became propitious" to them The idea of vicarious expiation runs through the whole Old Testament system of sacrifices. (See {PROPITIATION}.)
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