单词 | expiation |
释义 | expiationn. 1. a. The action of expiating or making atonement for (crime, etc.). in expiation (of): for the purpose of expiating. to make expiation: to atone. Also, the condition or state of being expiated. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [noun] boot971 edbotec1315 amendmentc1325 amendsc1330 assethe1340 enoughbote1340 satisfaction1340 redress1384 menda1400 redemptiona1400 curation?c1400 amends making?a1425 mends-makinga1425 recompensec1425 expiation1482 agreement1526 contentation1535 sythmentc1540 syth1567 atonement-making1587 atonement1611 piation1623 atone1868 1482 Monk of Evesham 68 The recompensacyon and expyacyon of the grete and longe schrewdenes and cursydnes. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 146 The sacrifice of expiation is that which tendeth to appease the wrath of God. 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. iv. iii. 141/2 The Abbay..at Dublin, builded..in expiation of the murther of Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 647 He made expiation for our sins on the Cross. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France iii, in Wks. (1808) VIII. 297 Modes of expiation..devised by anxious, restless guilt. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 231 I will found masses for his soul, in expiation of my guilt. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. i. xii. 156 A more complete expiation..might be necessary before the avenging spirit..could be pacified. b. Fast (or Feast) of Expiation: a ceremony observed by the Jews on the 10th day of Tisri, at which the High Priest made expiation for his own sins and the sins of the people. Day of Expiation: the day set apart for this observance; = ‘Day of Atonement’. Also Expiation-Day. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Yom Kippur > [noun] Day of Atonement1617 Day of Expiation1674 Yom Kippur1735 1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) The Feast of Expiation. a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 317 God no Command for Fasts wou'd lay, But on their [Jews'] Expiation-Day. a1713 J. Sharp Serm. Matt. xii, in Wks. (1754) III. xi. 201 The solemn day of expiation, which came once a year. 1886 Whitaker's Almanack 9 [Jewish Calendar] Oct. 9 Fast of Expiation 5647 Tisri 10. c. The action of ceremonially purifying from guilt or pollution. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > purification > [noun] washingc1375 purgationa1382 purificationc1384 expiation1532 emundation1610 lustration1614 februationa1652 lustrating1653 water purification1722 samskara1807 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 376/1 The ceremonies of the expiacion or purgyng of the tabernacle. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 264 The Gentiles had Rites for the expiation of Infants. d. The action of averting portended evil by religious means. ΚΠ 1740 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) IX. 6 By expiation of prodigies, and various sacrifices offered to the gods. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > propitiation > [noun] propitiationa1425 apeacement1581 propitiating1648 expiation1675 1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 383 That conformity of Customs that the Gauls had with them [the Phœnicians] in sacrificing men for expiation of God. 2. a. The means by which atonement (for a crime or offence) is made; something done, or a rite observed, for the purpose of expiating. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [noun] > means of amendsa1529 expiation?1548 ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Cvjv Offerynges & expiacyons. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. i. 339 Some have conceived it [Forbidden fruit] a Vine, in the mystery of whose fruit lay the expiation of the Transgression. View more context for this quotation 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. II. v. 30 To demand a certain number of human victims as an expiation for their guilt. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 143 The only expiation would be that thou shouldst come a mile into the Low Country. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 348 The payment of money was ever welcomed as the ready expiation of crime. b. A rite intended to avert portended evil. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > propitiatory > [noun] expiationa1627 a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 167 Vpon birth of such monsters, the Grecians..did vse diuerse sorts of expiations. Derivatives expiˈational adj. pertaining to expiation. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [adjective] satisfactoryc1443 expiatory1548 satisfactorious1561 amendsful1605 piacular1606 atoning1609 expiative1641 ilastical1649 expiatorious1651 satisfactional1681 lustratory1738 piaculous1780 expiating1793 satisfactive1829 expiational1874 lustrative1875 piaculative1919 1874 H. Bushnell Forgiveness & Law 91 The most intensely expiational form of christianity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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