Definitionadj. having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation
Last update: August 2, 2015
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He was the mythic founder of a religious school or sect, with a code of rules of life, a mystic eclectic theology, a system of purificatory and expiatory rites, and peculiar mysteries. [Please select]
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THE TRYST--IN THE GARDEN OF THE EXPIATORY CHAPEL II. [Please select]
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There had been something expiatory, something symbolic in this mad adventure, this flight through the night. [Please select]
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This practice--save the expiatory offerings--was adopted by the Christians. [Please select]
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He closed further negotiations with the comment that the United States could not be expected "to make, as it were, an expiatory sacrifice to obtain redress, or beg for reparation." [Please select]
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Indeed, it is very difficult to abolish such pagan practices so long as the clergy foster the notion that animal sacrifices are expiatory and propitiatory in their effects. [Please select]
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