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Webster 1913 Edition
Piaculous
Webster 1828 Edition
Piaculous
PIAC'ULOUS
,Adj.
1.
Expiatory; having power to atone.2.
Requiring expiation.3.
Criminal; atrociously bad.[These words are little used.]
Definition 2024
piaculous
piaculous
English
Adjective
piaculous (comparative more piaculous, superlative most piaculous)
- Obsolete form of piacular.
- 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (6th edition, book 3, chapter 25)
- And so, as Cæsar reports, unto the ancient Britains it was piaculous to taste a Goose, which dish at present no table is without.
- 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (6th edition, book 3, chapter 25)