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单词 expurgate
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expurgateadj.

/ˈɛkspəːɡeɪt/
Etymology: < Latin expurgātus, past participle of expurgāre : see expurgate v.
rare.
= expurgated adj. at expurgate v. Derivatives.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [adjective] > having (objectionable) passages removed
castrated1609
expurgated1831
expurgate1832
bowdlerized1879
1832 H. Coleridge Worthies Yorks. & Lancs. 19 An expurgate Liturgy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

expurgatev.

/ˈɛkspəːɡeɪt//ɛkˈspəːɡeɪt/
Etymology: < Latin expurgāt- participial stem of expurgāre , < ex- (see ex- prefix1) + purgāre to make clean.
1. transitive. To purge or clear out (something excremental). Also absol. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excrete [verb (intransitive)]
pass?c1425
void1558
purge1596
expurgate1621
excrete1832
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excrete [verb (transitive)]
yetOE
to put outa1350
void1398
expelc1405
avoid1562
ejaculate1578
excern1578
regurgitate1578
egest1607
evacuate1607
vent1607
expurgate1621
excrete1669
pass1698
to put off1740
re-ejaculate1826
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. ii. iv. 27 That watery matter the two Kidnies expurgate.
1652 J. Wadsworth tr. Colmenero de Ledesma Chocolate sig. A5v For though that water Expurgate, 'Tis but the Dreggs of Chocolate.
2.
a. To purify or amend (a book, etc.) by removing what is thought objectionable.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > practise textual criticism [verb (transitive)] > emend > remove objectionable passages from
castrate1627
expurge1635
expurgate1678
bowdlerize1836
censor1882
1678 T. Jones Of Heart & Soveraign 64 The Church of Rome..hath..cracked her credit by..forgeing, expurgating, etc.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xliv. 25 Juan was taught from out the best edition Expurgated by learned men.
1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses ii. vii. 117 Carefully corrected, expurgated and amended.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture i. 209 The collection [of Sound-Words] would afford the practical means of expurgating itself.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xi. 344 His principal object was to expurgate it from impurities.
b. To purge, make pure (rare). Also absol.
ΚΠ
1846 R. C. Trench Christ Desire of All Nations viii. 168 It is Christianity..which has really expurgated..literature.
3. To expunge as objectionable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > as objectionable
expurge1638
expurgate1853
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > practise textual criticism [verb (transitive)] > emend > remove objectionable passages from > remove (objectionable passages)
expurge1638
expurgate1853
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxx. 257 I copy them from my scrap-book, expurgating only a little.

Derivatives

ˈexpurgated adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [adjective] > having (objectionable) passages removed
castrated1609
expurgated1831
expurgate1832
bowdlerized1879
1831 T. B. Macaulay Johnson in Ess. (1851) I. 174 What man of taste..can endure..abridgements, expurgated editions?
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table i. 17 A kind of expurgated..copy of Voltaire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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