piacularity

[Eng. piacular; -ity.] The quality or state of being piacular; criminality. pi-ăc-u-lous, a. [Eng. piacle; -ous. ] 1. Piacular, expiatory, atoning. 2. Requiring expiation; criminal, wrong, sinful. "Unto the ancient Britons it was piaculous to taste a goose."- Browne : Vulgar Errors , bk. iii., ch. xxiv.