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Definition of Expurgate

Expurgate
Expurgate Ex"pur*gate (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expurgated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expurgating.] [L. expurgatus, p. p. of expurgare to purge, purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge, and cf. Spurge.] To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

Meaning of Expurgate from wikipedia

- An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization or fig-leaf edition, is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or...
- Books, the children's imprint of the British publisher Penguin Books, expurgated various works by British author Roald Dahl in 2023, sparking controversy...
- usum Delphini for the use of the Dauphin Said of a work that has been expurgated of offensive or improper parts. Originates from editions of Gr**** and...
- an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta...
- intensified in the late 19th and early 20th century, the word aikāne was expurgated of its original ****ual meaning, and in print simply meant "friend". Nonetheless...
- original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2011. "The index of expurgations". "Heresy and Error": The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800...
- sick man in the expurgated edition. In the second incident, reference is made to cleaning fluff out of the human navel, but the expurgated edition changed...
- the Person Act 1861, ss 61, 62 Ross published a version of the letter expurgated of all references to Douglas in 1905 with the title De Profundis, expanding...
- The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written by William Wycherley and first performed in 1675. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period,...
- Mishnah) instead of "Talmud" dates from this time. The first edition of the expurgated Talmud, on which most subsequent editions were based, appeared at Basel...