| 单词 | piacular |
| 释义 | piacular, a.|paɪˈækjʊlə(r)|
[ad. L. piāculār-is expiatory, f. piāculum piacle: see -ar1. Cf. F. piaculaire (1752).]
1. Making expiation or atonement; expiatory.
1647Owen Death of Death Wks. 1852 X. 267 He made his Soul an offering for sin—a piacular sacrifice. a1703Burkitt On N.T. Matt. xx. 28 Their piacular victims were ransoms for the life of the offender. 1818G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ II. 239 note, [They] do not seem..to have sufficiently attended to the distinction between eucharistic and piacular sacrifices. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos xi. 143 The great brazen altar of burnt-offering, where piacular or bloody offerings were alone presented.
2. Requiring or calling for expiation; sinful, wicked, culpable.
1610Bp. Hall Apol. Brownists 79 If it were not piacular for you to reade ought of his. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινη xx. 175 They held it piacular to eat with sinners. 1728R. North Mem. Music (1846) 16 To add to or alter the instruments or modes, was almost piacular. 1857De Quincey Whiggism Wks. VI. 53 He..left no stone unturned to cleanse his little..fold from its piacular pollution.
Hence piacuˈlarity, the quality of being piacular: (a) expiatory character, (b) criminality; piˈacularly adv., as an expiatory or atoning sacrifice; piˈacularness = piacularity.
1702H. Dodwell Apol. §16 in S. Parker Cicero's De Finibus, That Philosopher makes the Piacularness of a violent Death to consist in its being without the consent of the Guardian Genius. 1818G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ I. 260 The goat..was devoted as a sin-offering..by its being piacularly slain. Ibid. 268 The essence of its being a sacrifice does not consist in the outward act of burning; but in the piacularity of the intention. 1864Webster, Piacularity,..criminality, badness. De Quincey. |
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