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Where, on the other hand, the victim is a fellow tribesman, the sacrifice is expiatory or piacular.
MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION, VOL. 1ANDREW LANGAnd, third, Are his sufferings expiatory—the meritorious cause of human salvation?
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE COMMON, VOL. II (OF 2)TIMOTHY EASTHe came in one morning, after he had concluded his suspicions were wrong, and made a sort of expiatory call.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1885VARIOUSA great expiatory sacrifice succeeded in finally calming him.
THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, VOLUME 36, NOVEMBER 1879VARIOUSPiacular, pī-ak′ū-lar, adj. serving to appease, expiatory: requiring expiation: atrociously bad.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 3 OF 4: N-R)VARIOUSHer death was not avenged, perhaps because they considered it as an expiatory sacrifice.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, VOL. 1DAVID COLLINSThey even instituted an expiatory feast for these two pretended sacrileges.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 3 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)Human sacrifices an Accadian institution; children burnt to death as expiatory offerings by their fathers, 75.
ASSYRIA, ITS PRINCES, PRIESTS AND PEOPLEA. H. (ARCHIBALD HENRY) SAYCEBy neglecting this point, projectors perpetually realize the expiatory fable of the Danaïds.
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINESANDREW UREOver it an expiatory chapel was built, with buildings adjoining, the whole forming a very beautiful structure.
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