expiator (ekspiator)

[= It. espiatore, Which are not to be expounded as if ordination did confer the first grace, which in the schools is understood only to be expiator i ous . Jer . Taylor , Office Ministerial, § 7. expiatory (eks'pi-a-tō-ri), a . [= F. exp i a to ire = Sp . Pg . exp i a to rio = It. espiatorio , piatorius , expiare , pp. expiatus , expiate: see expiate , expiator .] Having the power to make atonement or expiation; offered by way of expiation. His voluntary death for others prevailed with God, and had the force of an expiatory sacrifice. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. [ expilatus , pp. Darwin , Cro and Self Fertilisation, p. 387. experimentum (eks-per-i-men'tum), n.; pl. ex per i menta (-tä). [L.: see experiment .] periment. - Experimentum crucis, a crucial or deciding experiment or test. See crucial , 3. experrectiont (eks-pe-rek's hon), n . [ ex per rectus, pp. of expergisci , be awakened, awake, expergere , tr., wake, arouse, ex , out, + pergere , wake, arouse, pursue, proceed, go on, per , through, + regere , keep straight, guide, direct: see regent . Cf. insurrection, resurrection.] A waking up or arousing. The Phrygians also, imagining that God sleepeth all winter and lieth awake in the summer, thereupon celebrate in one season the feast of lying in bed and sleeping, in the other, of experrection or waking, and that with much drinking and belly cheer. Holland , tr. of Plutarch, p. 1069. expert (eks-pèrt' as a .; eks-pèrt' or eks'pėrt as n.), a . and n. [ ME.expert , expert = Pr. expert , espert = Sp. Pg. experto = It. esperto, sperto , expert us (for * expe rit us ; cf. equiv. peritus ), experienced, skilled, expert, pp. of experiri , try, put to the test, go through: see experience .] I. a. 1. Having had experience; experienced; practised; trained; taught by use, practice, or experience. Experte am I thaire planntes best to growe But sette hem no we. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 97. And nouhte to hem of elde that bene experte In govern a unce, nurture, and honeste. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 1. pete.] Fit to be sought after; desirable. An establishment... is more expetible than an appointment in some circumstances more perfect, without the same uniform order and peace therewith. T. Puller , Moderation of Church of Eng., p. 410. expiable (eks'pi-a-bl), a. [ They allow them to be such as deserve punishment, although such as are easily pardonable: remi ible, of course, or expiable by an easie penitence. Feltham, Resolves, ii. 9. expiamentt (eks'pi-a-ment), n. [L. as if *ex- piamentum , expiare , expiate: see expiate .] An expiation. Bailey , 1727. expiate (eks'pi-at), v . t .; pret. and pp. expiated , ppr. expiating. [ expiatus , pp. of expiare (> It. espiare = Sp. Pg. expiar = F. expier ), atone for, make satisfaction for, ex , out, + piare , appease, propitiate, make atonement, pius , devout, pious: see pious .] 1. To atone for; make satisfaction or reparation for; remove or endeavor to remove the moral guilt of (a of expilare (> It. espilare = Pg. expilar ), pillage, plunder, So many grievances of the people, expilations of the church, abuses to the state, entrenchments upon the royalties of the crown, were continued. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 100. This Within the same space [the last six months of his reign) he [Edward VI.] lost by way of gift about twice as much of the relics of the monastic spoil as he had lost in the whole of any of his former years (except the first two). final exp i lati on, for such it was, avenged upon the son the sacrilege of the father. R. W. Dizon, Hist. Church of Eng., xxi.