expiatory

Could not a decision be made for me by the birds and the flesh of the expiatory victims?

The text also ignores public festivals, death rites and expiatory rights.

In 1829, an expiatory chapel was built there in the form of a temple.

"Maybe if we made an expiatory offering," Rom said.

He therefore offered prayers and an expiatory sacrifice for these warriors who had died in a state of sin.

Nevertheless, so that Parliament could show its independence, there had to be a scapegoat, an expiatory victim.

Henceforth the ceremonial, instead of placatory and expiatory, became nuptial.

The bay laurel plant was used in expiatory sacrifices and in making the crown of victory at these games.

The Horse Sacrifice is an expiatory rite of matchless extravagance.

One particularly remarkable aspect was that those who teased or condemned her were compelled to undergo expiatory punishment.

The doctrine of the expiatory death of Christ is Pauline and not evangelical.

The regulation of all expiatory ceremonials needed as a result of pestilence, lightning, etc.

The name derives from februa, "the means of purification, expiatory offerings."

Essentially an agricultural festival, the Thargelia included a purifying and expiatory ceremony.

This suggests this expiatory cross (Sühnekreuz) was erected in his memory.

Now as "expiatory victims are dispatched in droves," Mohsen has gradually stopped dreaming.

The new king tried to ease his conscience by instituting expiatory measures in atonement for the sin of fratricide.

What important ideas should govern thinking about it: expiatory sacrifice, ransom from slavery, feudal satisfaction, legal justification, exemplary action?

Very naively he offered heaven, by way of expiatory anguish, the abominable torment from which he was suffering.

An expiatory chapel was built by the Count of Artois from 21 October 1814.

A Treatise on the Origin of Expiatory Sacrifice,' 1827.

British colonialism, Nazism, Communist totalitarianism, apartheid: the candidates for expiatory examination are rich and varied.

Compare piaculum, an expiatory offering.

A piaculum is an expiatory sacrifice, or the victim used in the sacrifice; also, an act requiring expiation.

Some sutras recommend expiatory acts for those who have crossed the boundaries of Āryāvarta.