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Expiating
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 Expiating from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- Version and the New American Bible (Revised Edition), and as "the means of expiating sin" in the New English Bible and the Revised English Bible. The New Revised...
- Joyce. Los Angeles Times. March 10, 1975: e8. Expiating the Injustice to John Henry Faulk: Expiating the Injustice to Faulk. Warga, Wayne. Los Angeles...
- 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...
- In other biblical translations the water is referred to as water of expiation (Douay–Rheims Bible), water of separation (King James Version), water...
- 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...
- temporary realm of enjoyment similar to Paradise, after a brief period of expiation in **** and before the next reincarnation, according to the law of karma...
- 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...
- the pre-Islamic pagans of Mecca fasted on the tenth day of Muharram to expiate sin and avoid drought.[self-published source] Philip Jenkins argues that...