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e 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.

personal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

One who makes atonement.

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

To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction. [Obs.] Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. Shak.

To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.] Shak.

To atone; to be punished for. And grievously hath Cæzar answered it. Shak.

An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.

To expiate; to atone for. [Archaic] Spenser. Let each act assoil a fault. E. Arnold.

Together. [Obs.] Spenser. He and Aufidius can no more atone Than violentest contrariety. Shak.

Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.

er; manslaughter; destruction. So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones. Hood.

troys grain. See Smut. -- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 Sam. xxiv. 22.…

tenure by law at all, but is rather an eternal outlaw, and in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere. Milton.

To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.] His sin was dispensed With gold, whereof it was compensed. Gower.

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

ilt of by sufferance of penalty or some 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.

The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving.

One who makes expiation or atonement.

Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc.