Hypertext Webster Gateway: "expiate"
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) 1.7 (wn)
expiate
v : make amends for; "expiate one's sins" [syn: {aby}, {abye}, {atone}]
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