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Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt. Bp. Hall.

equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin. To expiate his treason, hath naught left. Milton. The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. Clarendon.

uffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving.

An expiator. [R.]

One who makes expiation or atonement.

Of an expiatory nature; expiatory. Jer. Taylor.

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

The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. [Obs.] This ravenous expiation of the state. Daniel.

One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.

One who expires or is expiring.

The act of expiring; as: (a)(Physiol.)

Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.

-- opposed to inspire. Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. Dryden.

Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.

Expiration. He had to leave at the expiry of the term. Lamb. The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term. J. Morley.

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol. Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander.

The act of expiscating; a fishing. [R.] Chapman.

Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn.