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Definition of Expurgatory

Expurgatory
Expurgatory Ex*pur"ga*to*ry, a. [Cf. F. expurgatoire.] Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying. ``Expurgatory animadversions.' --Sir T. Browne. Expurgatory Index. See Index Expurgatorius, under Index.

Meaning of Expurgatory from wikipedia

- helping select that old English folk tune ... "A lustrum, by Expurgatory". Expurgatory. Retrieved 2024-01-29. Rabenanwälte und Abmahnkrähen (German)...
- distribution of literature: a study of the history of the prohibitory and expurgatory indexes, together with some consideration of the effects of Protestant...
- Parliament of the United Kingdom. Courtney Ilbert described this Act as an "expurgatory Act". The whole Act was repealed by section 132(1) of, and Schedule 6...
- of Stupendous Sweatouts and Giver of Awesome Scathing Scoldings and Expurgatory Roustings) (1971) O.D.D. B.A.L.L.E.R. (Observer of Devious Doings and...
- England" (1870) 1 Albany Law Journal 509. Courtenay Ilbert applied the term expurgatory Act both to Statute Law Revision Acts and also to Acts which, although...
- Preface signed Joseph Mendham. ‘Account of Indexes, Prohibitory and Expurgatory, of the Church of Rome,’ 1826; 2nd edit., as ‘Literary Policy of the...
- distribution of literature : a study of the history of the prohibitory and expurgatory indexes, together with some consideration of the effects of Protestant...