As soon as religion was established, expiationswere admitted.
The Roman Catholics have expiationswhich they call penances.
The advice of the college of pontiffs was taken on the subject of the expiations to be made, on account of the treasures in the temple of Proserpine, at Locri, having been touched, violated, and carried out of it.
But, both now, and frequently on other occasions, the goddess has either defended her own habitation and temple, or has exacted heavy expiations from those who had violated it.
Loss of caste seems, in general, to have been incurred by crimes, or by omitting the prescribed expiations for offences.
The other expiations are mostly made by fines and austerities.
There were knaves of every kind displaying the greatest zeal for a religion, the ministers of which imposed easy expiations even on those who violated its most express precepts.
I have now indicated what the expiations are of the sins that have been mentioned.
These, O king, are the expiations for sinful acts, according to precedent and reason and scriptures and the ordinances.
Not knowing how desperate the disease is, men seek help in themselves, and think, by industry and care and art, to raise them up in some measure, and please God by some expiations or sacrifices of their own works.
But now since this perfect propitiation is offered up for our sins should not all these vain expiations of your works cease?
What empty, vain, and frivolous expiations and satisfactions will souls invent, rather than trust all to this!
These are but the vainexpiations and excuses of natural consciences, which are led to some sense of a deity by the law written in their heart.
VI) are not possible in the case of him who has lapsed from the condition of a Naishthika; since suchexpiations do not apply to him, as is shown by a Smriti text referring to such lapse, viz.
I see no expiatory performance by which he, a slayer of Brahman as he is, could become pure again,' declares thatexpiations are powerless to restore purity.
To kill a water-dog is the greatest crime;[358] and is menaced with the worst penalties and expiations known to the Vendidad.
Not only are expiations required for all sins and prescribed down to the minutest details, but the offences must also be repented of; certain formulae of confession and repentance are prescribed.
The rules concerning purity and purification, the expiations and penances necessary to avert the Daevas, which we possess in the Vendidad of the Avesta, are only the remnant of a far more comprehensive law.
I shall now recite what the expiations are which one must go through for cleansing oneself from such sins.
If a man takes any food in the house of a dead person, within ten days after the death, he should go through all the expiations before mentioned, and should recite the Savitri hymn and do the sin-destroying Ishti and Kushmanda penances.
Let him be averse to expiations after having committed transgressions!
In such cases, expiations should be made, and propitiatory rites should be observed, and oblations offered to the gods.
You know well, wretch, that I hate humanity; you know well that these expiations which are imposed upon me, only inspire me with hatred against those who oblige me to act thus, and against those who profit by it.
Mysteries andexpiations were in credit almost throughout the earth.
Zosimus and Sozomen pretend that, the heathen priests having told him that there were no expiations for such great crimes, he then made open profession of Christianity, and demolished many temples in the East.
Besides by living more with each other, and to being seldom absolutely alone, they are more under the influence of sentiments than passions.
We turn from these expiatory festivals of universal occurrence to the expiations which the religion of Apollo enjoined for those who had incurred the guilt of homicide.
By this we are to understand that it was their duty to give information respecting every thing which regarded the jus sacrum; which in ancient times especially comprehended expiations and excommunications for homicide.
His magnificent expiations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best much in Europe.
Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats.
Even sacrifice is still to be offered, expiations and penances are to be observed.
In the place of an exclusive sense of caste came equality and brotherly love; tolerance and gentleness in the place of ceremonial; expiations and penances were superseded by a rational morality, and beneficial sympathy with all creatures.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expiations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
