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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.

Expecting a wish; supplicatory. [R.] Sacrifices . . . distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical. Bp. Law.

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.

An expiator. [R.]

ing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. And bitter penance, with an iron whip…

Expiatory; atoning. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice. Sharp.

Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.

Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke.

Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.

rist suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.