expiable

[Lat. expiabilis, from expio = to expiate (q. v.).] That may or can be expiated or atoned for. "Thought this wrong not expiable but by bloud." Bp. Hall: Epistles (Dec. 3). ěx'-pl-āte, v . t. [Latin expiatus , pa. par. of expio =to atone for fully: er =out, fully, and pio to propitiate; pius =devout, kind; Fr. expier ; Span. expiar; Ital. espiare .] 1. To atone or make satisfaction for; to annul or extinguish the guilt of by the sufferance of some penalty. "The crime of going one step further had been sufficiently expiated by thirty years of banishment." - Macau lay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xv. 2. To make reparation or satisfaction for. "The treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury, to procure some declaration to that purpose, under his majesty's sign manual."-Clarendon. *3. To avert the threat of prodigies. "Frequent showers of stones could be expiated only by bringing to Rome Cybele."-T. H. Dyer .