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) Expiate
(Ex"pi*ate) a. [L. expiatus,p. p] Terminated. [Obs.] Shak.
Expiation
(Ex`pi*a"tion) n. [L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation]
1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering
or penalty.
His liberality seemed to have something in it of self- abasement and expiation.
W. Irving. 2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or
offering; an atonement.
Those shadowy expiations weak,
The blood of bulls and goats.
Milton. 3. An act by which the threats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.
Expiatist
(Ex"pi*a*tist) n. An expiator. [R.]
Expiator
(Ex"pi*a`tor) n. [L.] One who makes expiation or atonement.
Expiatorious
(Ex`pi*a*to"ri*ous) a. Of an expiatory nature; expiatory. Jer. Taylor.
Expiatory
(Ex"pi*a*to*ry) a. [L. expiatorius: cf. F. expiatoire.] Having power, or intended, to make
expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.
Expilation
(Ex`pi*la"tion) n. [L. expiatio.] The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. [Obs.]
This ravenous expilation of the state.
Daniel. Expilator
(Ex"pi*la`tor) n. [L.] One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Expirable
(Ex*pir"a*ble) a. That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.
Expirant
(Ex*pir"ant) n. One who expires or is expiring.
Expiration
(Ex`pi*ra"tion) n. [L. expiratio,exspiratio: cf. F. expiration. See Expire.]
1. The act of expiring; as: (a)(Physiol.) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs
through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; — opposed to inspiration.
(b) Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth.
Bacon. (c) The last emission of breath; death. "The groan of expiration." Rambler.
