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expurge, v. Rare in mod. use.|ɛkˈspɜːdʒ|
[a. Fr. expurge-r, refashioned from espurger = Pr. espurgar:— L. expurgāre: see expurgate.]
1. trans.
a. To cleanse, purify from, of (anything unclean or objectionable).
b. To purge away (anything offensive). Const. from, out of.
a.1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 178/2 Desyre..expurged fro the dust of al worldely affeccion. 1853E. S. Sheppard C. Auchester II. 179 [It did] expurge [me] of all earthly.
b.1542Becon Potation for Lent Wks. (Parker Soc. 1843) 118 It is not enough..to expurge and put sin out of you. 1578Banister Hist. Man. i. 12 The pituitous excrements expurged from the head vnto the eyes. 1620Venner Via Recta v. 86 [It]..expurgeth the sharpe and cholericke humors. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 505 Melancholical humour easie to be expurged.
2. a. To expurgate (a book, etc.). b. To expunge as objectionable from a book.
a.1635E. Pagitt Chistianogr. i. iii. (1636) 170 In these..Liturgies..some..seeme to be corrupted and expurged. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. Pref., Take all my Writings, as well those crude and uncorrected, as those that are thorowly expurged.
b.1638T. Whitaker Blood of Grape 62 We may therfore expurge this pernicious and intolerable mistake. a1672Wood Life (1848) 168 To have that passage expurg'd. 1832H. Melvill in Preacher III. 100/2 If a few portions of the Bible were expurged, it would be hard..to prove the doctrine from the remainder.
Hence exˈpurging vbl. n. Expurging Index = Expurgatory Index.
1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1646) i. 105 They plainly confesse the expurging of the Indian Liturgie. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 39 The council of Trent, and the Spanish Inquisition..perfeted those Catalogues and expurging Indexes. 1645Bp. Hall Peace Maker §20 The expurging of those [authors] of their own, whom they dare not deface. |