piacular

Exactly right, Arnold, on the piacular health care proposals.

Only the Libertarian Fringe Offers Real Health Care Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I felt the glow of success, raising an academic paper from a piacular rite to -- dare I say it -- art.

Best. Compliment. Ever. K. A. Laity 2005

I felt the glow of success, raising an academic paper from a piacular rite to -- dare I say it -- art.

Archive 2005-03-01 K. A. Laity 2005

The piacular sacrifice took place several days later, by which time Caesar had readied himself for his journey to take up duty under Marcus Minucius Thermus, governor of Asia Province.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

“He made his soul an offering for sin,” — a piacular sacrifice for the removing of it away; which the apostle abundantly cleareth, in saying that he was made hamartia, “sin” itself, 2 Cor.v. 21, sin being there put for the adjunct of it, or the punishment due unto it.

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

And Suetonius, speaking of Otho, says, “He endeavours, by all kinds of piacular sacrifices, to propitiate the manes of Galba, by whom he had seen himself thrust down and expelled.”

A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967

“Conspectus ab utrâque acie aliquanto augustior humano visu, sicut cœlo missus piaculum omnis deorum iræ, qui pestam ab suis aversam in hostes ferret;” — “He was looked on by both armies as one more august than a man, as one sent from heaven, to be a piacular sacrifice, to appease the anger of the gods, and to transfer destruction from their own army to the enemies,” Liv.,

A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965

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

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

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.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

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.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood