piaculativeadj.
/pʌɪˈakjᵿlətɪv/, U.S. /paɪˈækjəˌleɪdɪv/ rare.
= piacular adj. 1.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [adjective]
satisfactoryc1443
expiatory1548
satisfactorious1561
amendsful1605
piacular1606
atoning1609
expiative1641
ilastical1649
expiatorious1651
satisfactional1681
lustratory1738
piaculous1780
expiating1793
satisfactive1829
expiational1874
lustrative1875
piaculative1919
1919 T. S. Eliot Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service in Poems The young are red and pustular Clutching piaculative pence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1919- hedge out
- hedge parsley
- hedge pink
- hedge selling
- hedge spade
- hedge sparrow
- hedge trimmer
- hedge trimming
- hedge up
- hedge violet
- hedge woundwort
- hedge-accentor
- hedge-alehouse
- hedge-apple
- hedge-bank
- hedge-bantling
- hedge-bedstraw
- health maintenance organization
- health minister
- health office
- health permitting
- health physics
- health salt
- health service
- health spring