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expurgatory, a.|ɛkˈspɜːgətəɪ|
[ad. mod.L. expurgātōrius: see expurgate and -ory.]
Of or pertaining to expurgation; disposed or tending to expurgate or clear of impurity, guilt, etc.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vi. §10. 103 Expurgatory animadversions, whereby wee might strike out great numbers of hidden qualities. 1675Marvell Divine in Mode Wks. III. 22 We seem to have got an expurgatory press, though not an index. a1797Burke Tracts Popery Laws ii. Wks. IX. 339 The party has failed in his expurgatory proof. 1821J. Boswell Shaks. Wks. Advt. I. 8 There are some annotations..I should gladly have omitted, but..such an expurgatory liberty seemed to me to be going beyond the bounds of my ‘limited service’.
b. Expurgatory Index: the list of authors and writings forbidden by the Church of Rome to be read unless they shall have been expurgated. (The Lat. Index expurgatorius is now commonly used.)
1625Ussher Answ. Jesuit 513 Their Old Expurgatory Index..set out by Cardinall Quiroga. 1667Poole Dial. Protest. & Papist (1735) 139 [The Church of Rome's] expurgatory Indices. 1826E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 125 No other book..hath been permitted to escape..their..Expurgatory Indices.
transf.1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 87 There..should be an expurgatory index to..Shakspeare. |