expiatory

But the new principle speedily degenerated into a belief in the expiatory nature of the gifts.

A great expiatory sacrifice succeeded in finally calming him.

The oracle, being again consulted by Temenus, bade him offer an expiatory sacrifice and banish the murderer for ten years, and look out for a man with three eyes to act as guide.

In the philosophy of Plato, on the other hand, punishment was chiefly expiatory and purificatory.

I doubt whether a real distinction can be made between propitiatory and expiatory sacrifices.