Expedite vs Expiate - What's the difference?
expedite | expiate |
To accelerate the progress of.
To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.
Free of impediment; unimpeded.
* Hooker
Expeditious; quick; prompt.
* Tillotson
* John Locke
(transitive, or, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for.
* Clarendon
* 1888 , Leo XIII, "",
* 1913 , ,
To make amends or pay the penalty for.
* 1876 , ,
(obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
* 1829 , , Larcher's Notes on Herodotus , vol. 2,
To purify with sacred rites.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xviii. 10 (Douay version)
In lang=en terms the difference between expedite and expiate
is that expedite is to perform (a task) fast and efficiently while expiate is to make amends or pay the penalty for.As verbs the difference between expedite and expiate
is that expedite is to accelerate the progress of while expiate is (transitive|or|intransitive) to atone or make reparation for.As an adjective expedite
is free of impediment; unimpeded.expedite
English
Verb
(expedit)- He expedited the search by alphabetizing the papers.
Antonyms
* impede * slow downAdjective
(en adjective)- to make the way plain and expedite
- nimble and expedite in its operation
- Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts.
expiate
English
Verb
- The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
- Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation,
- I am going out to expiate a great wrong, Paul. A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent.
- He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
p. 195,
- and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
- Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.