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The state of being at one or reconciled. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

rsonal 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.

Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.

The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned. [Recent]

The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.

A second enthroning.

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

A postponement of the decision of a cause, for further consideration or re-argument.

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.

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

One who makes atonement.

The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

oys 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.]…

The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation. N. Biddle.

The act of delaying; postponement. [R.] My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

Dethronement. [Obs.] Speed.

nure 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.

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.

as Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.