单词 | expurgate |
释义 | expurgateadj. 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.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). < adj.1832v.1621 |
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