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.

Verb

(en verb)

To make better.

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* Shakespeare

Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .

* Sir Walter Scott

We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.

To become better.

(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:

But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .

*, II.2.6.ii:

he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .

To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.