单词 | expurgatory |
释义 | expurgatoryadj. a. Of or pertaining to expurgation; disposed or tending to expurgate or clear of impurity, guilt, etc. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [adjective] > exculpated > exculpatory expurgatory1646 disculpatory?1756 exculpatory1781 absolvent1825 exculpativea1832 expurgatorial1854 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [adjective] > relating to emendation > removal of objectionable passages expurgatorious1641 expurgatory1646 censorial1772 expurgatorial1803 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. §10. 103 Expurgatory animadversions, whereby wee might strike out great numbers of hidden qualities. View more context for this quotation 1675 A. Marvell Divine in Mode in Wks. III. 22 We seem to have got an expurgatory press, though not an index. a1797 E. Burke Tracts Popery Laws in Wks. (1842) II. 434/2 The party has failed in his expurgatory proof. 1821 J. Boswell in Plays & Poems Shakspeare I. Advt. p. viii There are some annotations..I should gladly have omitted, but..such an expurgatory liberty seemed to me to be going beyond the bounds of my ‘limited service’. b. Expurgatory Index n. the list of authors and writings forbidden by the Church of Rome to be read unless they shall have been expurgated. (The Latin Index expurgatorius is now commonly used.) ΚΠ 1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 513 Their Old Expurgatory Index..set out by Cardinall Quiroga. 1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant (1735) 139 [The Church of Rome's] expurgatory Indices. 1826 E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 125 No other book..hath been permitted to escape..their..Expurgatory Indices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1625 |
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