Definition of Expiate. Meaning of Expiate. Synonyms of Expiate

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Definition of Expiate

Expiate
Expiate Ex"pi*ate, a. [L. expiatus,p. p] Terminated. [Obs.] --Shak.
Expiate
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)

Meaning of Expiate from wikipedia

- English attone or atoon (meaning "agreed" or "at one"). Expiation is likewise related to the verb expiate, from Latin expio meaning "to atone" or "to purge...
- Yom Kippur (/ˌjɒm kɪˈpʊər, ˌjɔːm ˈkɪpər, ˌjoʊm-/ YOM kip-OOR, YAWM KIP-ər, YOHM-; Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר‎ Yōm Kippūr [ˈjom kiˈpuʁ], lit. 'Day of Atonement')...
- Look up expiation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Expiation is another word for atonement, the removal of guilt or making of amends. Expiation may also...
- Expiation is a 1922 British silent crime film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Ivy Close, Fred Raynham and Lionelle Howard. It was based on an 1887...
- put a stop to the constant practice of offering a daily sacrifice of expiation for three years and six months. — The Jewish War When the Second Temple...
- redeemed from sin by Jesus' death and resurrection. His death was an expiation as well as a propitiation, and by Christ's blood peace is made between...
- related to the idea of atonement and sometime mistakenly conflated with expiation. The discussion here encomp****es usage only in the Christian tradition...
- this expiation, and debate over the site of the Cerean expiation, see Edward Champlin, Nero, Harvard University Press, 2003, pp. 191–4: this expiation is...
- tradition, an act of reparation is a prayer or devotion with the intent to expiate the "sins of others", e.g. for the repair of the sin of blasphemy, the...
- Caracalla was thereafter tormented by guilt over his deed, but sought to expiate it by adding to this crime the proscription of all his brother's former...