Hypertext Webster Gateway: "piacular"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Piacular \Pi*ac"u*lar\, a. [L. piacularis: cf. F. piaculaire.]
1. Expiatory; atoning. --Sir G. C. Lewis.
2. Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. ``Piacular
pollution.'' --De Quincey.
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