# expiate
## English
### Etymology

From Latin expiātus, past participle of expiō (“atone for”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈɛk.spi.eɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Verb

expiate (third-person singular simple present expiates, present participle expiating, simple past and past participle expiated)
* (transitive, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for.
** 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
** 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 415:At laſt, he diſtinctly pronounced theſe three words, LET THIS EXPIATE! And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; […]
** 1888, Leo XIII, Quod Anniversarius:Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation, […]
** 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter VI, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg, published March 1915, →OCLC:I am going out to expiate a great wrong, Paul. A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent.
** 2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 335:The first change of regime came with the release of my more difficult mathematical, empirical, and scholarly work in a dozen articles in a variety of journals in an attempt to expiate my crime of having sold too many books.
* (transitive) To make amends or pay the penalty for.
** 1876, Jules Verne, translated by Stephen W. White, The Mysterious Island, part 2, chapter 17:He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
** 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:And when it was required of him by the rigid laws of a haphazard justice, which in retrospect seems like every night of the week, he pressed his limp forelock into a filthy washbasin, clutched a tap in each throbbing hand, and expiated a string of crimes he didn't know he had committed until they were thoughtfully explained to him between each stroke by Mr. Willow or his representatives.
* (transitive, obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
** 1829, Pierre Henri Larcher, Larcher's Notes on Herodotus, volume 2, page 195:[…] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
* (transitive) To purify with sacred rites.
** 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Devteronomie 18:10, page 435:Neither let there be found in thee any that shal expiate his ſonne, or daughter, making them to paſſe through the fyre: or that demandeth of ſouthſayers, and obſerueth dreames and diuinations, neither let there be a ſorcerer,
* (transitive) To wind up, bring to an end.
** 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 22”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, lines 3–4:But when in thee times forrwes I behould, / Then look I death my daies ſhould expiate.

#### Usage notes

Intransitive use, constructed with for (like atone), is obsolete in Christian usage, but fairly common in informal discussions of Islam.

#### Derived terms

* inexpiate
* unexpiated

#### Related terms

* expiation
* expiator
* expiatory

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* apexite

## Latin
### Verb

expiāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of expiō

## Spanish
### Verb

expiate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of expiar combined with te