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ex·pi·ate 
[ek-spee-eyt] Pronunciation Key
[ek-spee-eyt] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.
| to atone for; make amends or reparation for: to expiate one's crimes. |
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| ex·pi·ate
(ěk'spē-āt') Pronunciation Key
v. ex·pi·at·ed, ex·pi·at·ing, ex·pi·ates v. tr. To make amends or reparation for; atone: expiate one's sins by acts of penance. v. intr. To make amends; atone. [Latin expiāre, expiāt- : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + piāre, to atone (from pius, devout).] ex'pi·a'tor n. |
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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)
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Expiate
Ex"pi*ate\, a. [L. expiatus,p. p] Terminated. [Obs.] --Shak.
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