Verb

To clear of or to free from guilt; exonerate.

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Verb

(transitive, or, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for.

* Clarendon

The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.

* 1888 , Leo XIII, "",

Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation,

* 1913 , ,

I am going out to expiate a great wrong, Paul. A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent.

To make amends or pay the penalty for.

* 1876 , ,

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

(obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

* 1829 , , Larcher's Notes on Herodotus , vol. 2, p. 195,

and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.

To purify with sacred rites.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xviii. 10 (Douay version)

Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.