Definition of "expiatory" [ex•pi•a•to•ry]

• Of or pertaining to expiation (adjective)

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• "In our view, punishment ought to be regarded as at once an expiation and a discipline, or, in other words, an expiatory discipline."
• "For the last eighteen hundred years Greece has fed the human intellect; Rome, taught by Greece, and improving upon her teacher, has been the source of law and government and social civilization; "Judea has given to the world a pure Theism and the idea of expiatory sacrifice; and what neither one nor all of these could furnish," the perfection of moral and spiritual truth, has been given by christianity."
• "It is not denied that his teachings have great value, or that what is called his expiatory suffering for sin is effective in a degree, on men’s feeling, as well as efficacious in the satisfaction of justice; and it is continually put to his credit, in this same suffering and satisfaction, that he has purchased the Holy."