Piacular is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 237 anagrams from letters in piacular (aacilpru).
1600-10; Latin piāculāris atoning, equivalent to piācul(um) a means of atoning (piā(re) to appease, derivative of pius pious + -culum -cule<
Outside of mourning, such are the only cases of piacular rites which we have succeeded in finding in Australia.
Mourning offers us a first and important example of piacular rites.
By all these signs, the characteristic traits of the piacular rites are to be recognized.
Where, on the other hand, the victim is a fellow tribesman, the sacrifice is expiatory or piacular.
Also, fasting may be a piacular rite or an ascetic one, according to the circumstances.
But as piacular rites are met with even in the Australian societies, it is impossible to assign them so late an origin.
The explanation of piacular rites which we have proposed enables us to reply to this double question.
The term "piacular sacrifice" (piaculum) had a wide range of meaning, apart from the examples here given.
It is still surprising, it is true, that piacular rites specially destined to expiate sins, seem to be completely lacking.
piacular, pī-ak′ū-lar, adj. serving to appease, expiatory: requiring expiation: atrociously bad.
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