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Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. t.) To make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.

2. (v. t.) To purify with sacred rites.

3. (a.) Terminated.


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