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b. index expurgatorius (Latin), Expurgatory Index, an authoritative specification of the passages to be expunged or altered in works otherwise permitted. Also transferred and figurative.The Regulæ of the Council of Trent provided for the expurgation of such books, and in accordance therewith an Index Expurgatorius was printed at Antwerp, under the authority of Philip II, in 1571 (reprints of which are referred to in quot. 1611), another under the authority of the Inquisitor General Quiroga at Madrid in 1584 (see quot. 1625), and others with the same or similar titles in various Roman Catholic states. A bull of Sixtus V (1585–90) also authorized the Cardinals chosen to deal with prohibited books to prepare ‘indices expurgatorios’. Such a work on a large scale was commenced at Rome 1607 (Bergamo 1608), with the title ‘Indicis librorum expurgandorum in studiosorum gratiam confecti Tomus I., in quo 50 auctorum libri præ cæteris desiderati emendantur, per F. Jo. Mariam Brasichell., Sacri Palatii Apostol. Magistrum’. This (which never proceeded beyond the first volume) is the work referred to in quot. 1620 at sense 1. (See, on the whole subject, Rev. J. Mendham Account of the Indexes, both prohibitory and expurgatory, 1826, Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, 1830 and 1844). In English use, the name Index Expurgatorius has often been applied to the Index librorum prohibitorum (cf. quot. 1845), especially in transferred and figurative uses.