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单词 piacular
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piacularadj.

Brit. /pʌɪˈakjᵿlə/, U.S. /paɪˈækjələr/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin piāculāris.
Etymology: < classical Latin piāculāris expiatory, requiring expiation < piāculum piaculum n. + -āris -ar suffix1. Compare French piaculaire (1573 in Middle French in an apparently isolated attestation; subsequently from 1752).
1. Making expiation or atonement; expiatory.
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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
1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices iii. 156 With shedding the blood of certaine vile persons, as sacrifices piacular against publike hatred.
1648 J. Owen Death of Death iii. vii. 139 He made his soule an offering for sinne, a piacular sacrifice.
1722 R. Blackmore Redemption iii. 161 These out of pompous rituals, slaughter'd beasts, Piacular lustrations, sacred feasts, Dances and shews and sports religion fram'd.
1739 Burkitt's Expos. Notes New Test. (ed. 11) Matt. xx. 28 Their piacular Victims were Ransoms for the Life of the Offender.
1818 G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ (ed. 2) II. 239 [They] do not seem..to have sufficiently attended to the distinction between eucharistic and piacular sacrifices.
1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xi. 143 The great brazen altar of burnt-offering, where piacular or bloody offerings were alone presented.
1910 J. C. Lawson Mod. Greek Folklore & Anc. Greek Relig. The commonly accepted classification of ancient sacrifices recognises three main groups—the sacramental, the honorific, and the piacular.
1996 D. F. Wallace Supposedly Fun Thing (1997) 292 Ragged-necked Lebanese heads were even at that moment rolling down various corridors in piacular recompense for my having to carry my own bag.
2. Requiring or calling for expiation; sinful, wicked, culpable. Now rare.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > sinfulness > [adjective]
plightfula1400
piacular1610
sinning1610
peccable1633
peccant1633
piaculary1646
piaculous1646
peccaminous1656
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > [adjective]
sinfulc825
sinnyc950
plightfula1400
sin-soiled1593
peccant1604
sin-sick1609
piacular1610
sinning1610
peccable1633
Adamical1642
piaculary1646
piaculous1646
peccaminous1656
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [adjective] > transgressing or offending > of the nature of a fault or offence
sinfulc1175
faulty1548
slanderous1554
offensible1575
offenciousa1593
piacular1610
peccable1633
piaculous1646
transgressive1646
piacularly1818
1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists 79 If it were not piacular for you to reade ought of his.
1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ xx. 175 They held it piacular to eat with sinners.
1728 R. North Mem. Musick (1846) 16 To add to or alter the instruments or modes, was almost piacular.
1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 70/1 He..left no stone unturned to cleanse his little..fold from its piacular pollution.
1993 Washington Times (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Final ed.) g2 Not even your very fine commemorative section was enough to counter the piacular nature of that front page ‘banner’.

Derivatives

piˈacularly adv. rare as an expiatory or atoning sacrifice.
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society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [adverb] > on account of sin
piacularly1818
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [adjective] > transgressing or offending > of the nature of a fault or offence
sinfulc1175
faulty1548
slanderous1554
offensible1575
offenciousa1593
piacular1610
peccable1633
piaculous1646
transgressive1646
piacularly1818
1818 G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ (ed. 2) II. 260 The goat..was devoted as a sin-offering..by its being piacularly slain.
1904 Man 4 31 Robertson-Smith assumed..that the sacred animals of the mysteries and those offered piacularly bore a totemistic character.
piacularness n. Obsolete rare wickedness, sinfulness.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > criminality > [noun]
criminality1611
criminalnessa1660
piacularness1702
piacularity1856
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > quality of being (a) criminal
criminality1611
criminalty1630
criminousness1645
criminalnessa1660
piacularness1702
criminosity1727
piacularity1856
1702 H. Dodwell Apol. in S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus sig. b5v That Philosopher makes the Piacularness of a violent Death to consist in its being without the consent of the Guardian Genius.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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