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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make amends or reparation for; atone: expiate one's sins by acts of penance.
  2. v. To make amends; atone.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To atone for; make satisfaction or reparation for; remove or endeavor to remove the moral guilt of (a crime or evil act), or counteract its evil effects, by suffering a penalty or doing some counterbalancing good.
  2. To avert by certain observances.
  3. Expired.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive or intransitive To atone or make reparation for.
  2. v. transitive To make amends or pay the penalty for.
  3. v. transitive, obsolete To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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.
  2. v. obsolete To purify with sacred rites.
  3. adj. obsolete Terminated.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make amends for

Etymologies

  1. From Latin expiatum, past participle of expiō ("atone for"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin expiāre, expiāt- : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + piāre, to atone (from pius, devout). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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