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expunction|ɛkˈspʌŋkʃən|
[ad. L. expunctiōn-em, n. of action f. expungĕre: see expunge v.]
1. a. The action of expunging; an erasure.
1606W. Crashaw Rom. Forgeries & Falsific. G iij b, That which is to be corrected, may be done with some small addition or expunction. c1611Chapman Iliad ii. Comm. (1857) 59 Of which verse his interpreters cry out for the expunction. 1768Swinton in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 249 The expunction of the L..and the substitution of the V in its stead. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 188 The omission—and..the expunction—of names. 1823W. Roscoe tr. Sismondi's Lit. Eur. xxxvi. (1846) II. 448 note, The consonant in the middle of the words being..fixed upon for expunction.
b. Palæogr. The indication of an erasure to be made in a manuscript by means of dots placed beneath the relevant letter or letters.
1954N. Denholm-Young Handwriting in Eng. & Wales viii. 78 The point in the Middle Ages was used..beneath letters to denote expunction, i.e. they are to be regarded as not written. 1960N. R. Ker Eng. MSS. after Norman Conquest 51 Small errors were repaired by expunction or erasure, the correct reading being added above the line.
†2. A wiping out, removal. Obs.
1615T. Adams Leaven 120 The Gospell intends the expunction of the old Image. 1660Z. Crofton Fasten. St. Peter's Fetters 64 Total expunction of such Doctrine. |