英:['ekspɪətərɪ]
美:['ekspɪrˌtoʊrɪ]
英:['ekspɪətərɪ]
美:['ekspɪrˌtoʊrɪ]
ex·pi·a·to·ry
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词根:expiate
n.expiation 补偿;赎罪
vi.expiate 赎罪;补偿
vt.expiate 赎罪;补偿
Adjective
1. having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation;
"expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice"
"具有赎罪能力的",来自1540年代的晚期拉丁语 expiatorius,源自 expiat-,拉丁语 expiare 的过去分词词干"弥补"(参见 expiation)。
The first known use of expiatory was in the 15th century
1 We see from this that some rites of a peculiar worship of Apollo were observed at this passage, which were probably for the most part of an expiatory nature.
2 She was urging her people to sacrifice the murderers of her husband, as an expiatory offering on the chief’s grave.
3 Finally, after the event an expiatory sacrifice appeases the celestial anger, and a solemn covenant is made between men and the deity, who swears never so to destroy them again.
4 In the oldest books of the Hebrew Scriptures, we have numerous instances of expiatory rites, where atonement is the prominent feature.
5 Or the analogy of the ceremonial law is accepted; and then Christ is set forth as a propitiatory or expiatory offering to obtain remission of sins for us.
6 They trembled for years beneath the strokes of his wrath; they offered in expiatory sacrifices all possible equivalents; they invented penances, humiliations, tortures, without being sure that the divine vengeance ever was appeased.
7 The tears of the father and the intrepidity of the son won for the latter absolution; but the father was commanded to make expiatory sacrifices, and these were ever afterward continued in the Horatian family.
8 A great expiatory sacrifice succeeded in finally calming him.
9 It seems, too, as if you were well content to buy yourself free with this expiatory sacrifice.
10 The expiatory is an unknown attribute in the Divine.
11 Under the one, a grand expiatory ceremony on the Champ-de-Mars had honored the soldiers slain at Nancy, and the National Guards had worn mourning for these martyrs of duty.
12 Afterwards, the perpetrator was purified from all guilt by sacrifices and expiatory rites.
13 Ever afterwards the Sicilians offered sacrifices at this spring as an expiatory offering for the youth’s early death.
14 It did not take long to strike off the heads of several distinguished prisoners and put them in his place as an expiatory offering.
15 I doubt whether a real distinction can be made between propitiatory and expiatory sacrifices.
16 Officers and men, regulars and volunteers alike, took the field with the fixed intent of exacting an expiatory life for each hair on the head of those unhappy victims.
17 But hearken to what remains to be told; I have lately arrived in France, and I wished not to let my great purpose of continual expiatory acts stand still during my sojourn in this country.
18 Lastly, the origin of the Delphinian expiatory festival from Delphi and Crete is as evident as its introduction by the Ionian princes; for Ægeus dwelt in the Delphinium, and was there buried.
19 But generally this depends on the ability of the out-caste to pay a fine, and to supply the caste with an expiatory feast of sweetmeats.
20 The descent from the latter is also confirmed by the tradition concerning the expiatory virgins for the crime of Ajax the son of Oileus.
3 补偿
indemnificatory compensatory redemptive countervailing reparatory amends compensation offset redemption retrieval atonement redress indemnification recompense expiation redressal pay compensate commute atone repair recover retrieve redeem indemnify expiate countervail assoil make up for a loss make amends atone for
4 赎罪的