expiate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To atone or make reparation for.

   “The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.”

2. fiil To make amends or pay the penalty for.

   “He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.”

3. fiil To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

   “[…] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.”

4. fiil 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,”

5. fiil To wind up, bring to an end.

   “But when in thee times forrwes I behould, / Then look I death my daies ſhould expiate.”