a. [a. F. expiable, ad. L. expiābilis, f. expiāre: see EXPIATE.] Capable of being expiated; admitting of expiation.
1570. Levins, Manip., 3. Expiable, expiabilis.
1575. Fulke, Confut. Doctr. Purgatory (1577), 225. The fact of Iudas fauoureth not the popish purgatory, where none but veniall and light sinnes are expiable.
1614. Bp. Hall, Epist., III. vii. 473. Gothes … haue thought this wrong [adultery] not expiable, but by blood.
1838. Lytton, Leila, III. i. Any connexion between a Christian knight and a Jewess was deemed a sin, scarce expiable.
