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To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. [Obs.] I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak.

Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man…

One who makes atonement.

Etym: [See At one.] [Obs.] Down he fell atones as a stone. Chaucer.

Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.

Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

On or at the top. Milton.

A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. I. Disraeli.

Affected with melancholy; atrabilious. Arbuthnot.

Melancholy; atrabilious.

Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys.

Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision. A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude.

Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] Derham.

Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.

Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

To surpass in council. [Obs.] Men may the olde atrenne, but hat atrede. Chaucer.

To outrun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

Of or pertaining to an atrium.

Just hove clear of the ground; -said of the anchor.