expiate
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expiate
- /ˈɛk.spi.eɪt/ UK, US
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Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *pewH-
Proto-Italic *pīos
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *pīāō
Latin piō
Latin expiō
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Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin expiātus
English expiate
From Latin expiātus, past participle of expiō (“atone for”).
verb expiates · expiating · expiated
- To atone or make reparation for. The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
- To make amends or pay the penalty for. He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
- To relieve or cleanse of guilt. […] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
- To purify with sacred rites. Neither let there be found in thee any that shal expiate his ſonne, or daughter, making them to paſſe through the fyre: or that demandeth of ſouthſayers, and obſerueth dreames and diuinations, neither let there be a ſorcerer,
- To wind up, bring to an end. But when in thee times forrwes I behould, / Then look I death my daies ſhould expiate.
