Crossword-Solution: PIACULAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Piacular | a. | Expiatory; atoning. |
| Piacular | a. | Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| making expiation for a sacrilege | 1 answer |
| Baddie | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PIACULAR (5)
Secondly, there are expiatory or PIACULAR sacrifices, in which the worshipper, as it were, fines himself in a child, an ox, or something else that he treasures.
The evidence of human sacrifice (especially when it seems not piacular, but a relic of cannibalism) raises a presumption that Greeks had once been barbarians.
Still there is reason to believe that the piacular idea of sacrifice was never wholly lost, but that the Hindus, in common with all other races, found occasion--especially when great calamities befell them--to appease the gods with the blood of sacrifice.
The fact that in nearly every case those who were rescued from the flood immediately offered piacular sacrifices suggests the recognition in all human history of still another fundamental doctrine of Christianity, the universal sense of sin.
The father of Horatius, after making a piacular sacrifice, erected a beam across the street leading from the Vicus Cyprius to the Carinæ, with an altar on each side--the one dedicated to Juno Sororia and the other to Janus Curiatius--and under this yoke he made his son pass with his head veiled.