Expiate /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Expiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expiating

1. To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.

   To expiate his treason, hath naught left.

   The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.

2. To purify with sacred rites. [Obs.]

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

1. Terminated. [Obs.]