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expurgation|ɛkspɜːˈgeɪʃən|
Also 5 -acion.
[ad. L. expurgātiōn-em, n. of action f. expurgāre; see expurgate. Cf. Fr. expurgation.]
†1. The action of expurgating or cleansing from impurity (lit. and fig.); an instance of this. Obs.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 942 Thaire [bees'] dwellyng places expu[r]gacion Of every filthe aboute Aprill Calende Wol have of right. 1615Crooke Body of Man 31 Sorts ordained onely for the expurgation or cleansing of the principall. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. Pref. a vj a, Arts and Learning want this expurgation. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. ix. 138 A pure bodie; which puritie was attained by Expurgations, Washings, etc.
2. The removal from a book, etc., of that which is deemed objectionable; an instance of this.
1614Bp. Hall Epist. ii. iii, Nothing can argue guiltines so much, as unjust expurgations. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 53 This work will ask as many more officials, to make expurgations. 1694Pepys Lett. in Academy 9 Aug. (1890) 110/3 Yor politicall as well as philologicall Expurgations. 1820Southey Lett. (1856) III. 199 Sewell's History of the Quakers..has undergone a like expurgation. 1858Gladstone Homer I. 70 It seems to invite expurgation in order to establish the consistency of its contents.
3. The action of purging from imputed guilt; clearing; exculpation; after L. expurgatio. arch.
1828Scott F.M. Perth xxiii, The evidence of the Duke of Rothsay in expurgation, as it was termed, of Sir John.
4. The action of purging away (impurities, etc.); transf. the clearing out, removal (of objectionable members of a community).
1615Crooke Body of Man 183 The melancholly iuyce..needes the more forcible expurgation. 1648Bp. Hall Serm. Rem. Wks. (1660) 190 The severe censure and expurgation of those whom the Psalmist..calls leavened persons. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋244 A Cautery or Fontanell is not set to the expurgation of a malignant humour. 1839James Louis XIV, I. 448 The expurgation of all those members opposed to the Fronde, was advised. 1864Sat. Rev. 31 Dec. 797/2 The later months of the year have ended in the expurgation of weak speculators.
†5. Astr. The re-appearance of the sun after an eclipse; emersion. Obs.
1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1751in Chambers Cycl. 1862Chambers' Encycl. s.v. Eclipse, Emersion or expurgation is the time when the luminary begins to reappear. |