Expiatory [adjective]
Definition of Expiatory:
purgative
Opposite/Antonyms of Expiatory:
-
Sentence/Example of Expiatory:
Where, on the other hand, the victim is a fellow tribesman, the sacrifice is expiatory or piacular.
And, third, Are his sufferings expiatory—the meritorious cause of human salvation?
He came in one morning, after he had concluded his suspicions were wrong, and made a sort of expiatory call.
A great expiatory sacrifice succeeded in finally calming him.
Piacular, pī-ak′ū-lar, adj. serving to appease, expiatory: requiring expiation: atrociously bad.
Her death was not avenged, perhaps because they considered it as an expiatory sacrifice.
They even instituted an expiatory feast for these two pretended sacrileges.
Human sacrifices an Accadian institution; children burnt to death as expiatory offerings by their fathers, 75.
By neglecting this point, projectors perpetually realize the expiatory fable of the Danaïds.
Over it an expiatory chapel was built, with buildings adjoining, the whole forming a very beautiful structure.