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Enlargement or extension of business transaction; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes.

but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. Whately.

To purify with sacred rites. [Obs.] Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire. Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version)

The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement. Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats. Milton.

Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.

ntation; an expression; a plain declaration. [Obs.] The only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth. Jer. Taylor.

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the poss…

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope.

strumental in leading a soul to God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance. -- The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope.

al fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food. He sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 2 Sam. vi. 13.

Purification; a sacrifice. [Obs.] Spenser.

To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.

The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.

14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.

A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.

third ventricle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow (Anat.), the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the peritoneum.

anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620). On account of a mistake in reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been celebrated on the 22d.

To hew or cut in front. [Obs.] Sackville.

The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. [Obs.] The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller.