These are autumnal deaths to expiate the sins of a people and appease the heavens so summer might return.
Can it, as the prophets suggest, expiate our sins and bring us closer to God?
Future obedience, supposing it perfect, could not expiate past offences.
It was some comfort to think that fate had made him expiate our weakness.
Anti-republicans can only expiate their folly under the age of the guillotine.
Go to bed and sleep like the cherub you are, while I expiate here with my pipe.
But, whoever may have been the author, pains were taken to expiate the sacrilege.
He had thought of a plan to expiate his follies of the night.
Tell our father Kala-hoi, that we fear to meet him, and now go to expiate our crime.'
"You have got to expiate," Etienne Rambert said with the same harshness.
c.1600 (OED entry has a typographical error in the earliest date), from Latin expiatus, past participle of expiare "to make amends, atone for (see expiation). Related: Expiable (1560s); expiated; expiating.
