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Webster 1913 Edition


Piacular

Pi-ac′u-lar

,
Adj.
[L.
piacularis
: cf. F.
piaculaire
.]
1.
Expiatory; atoning.
Sir G. C. Lewis.
2.
Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.
“Piacular pollution.”
De Quincey.