purgatorialadj.

c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3042 So differences fire werldly fro thilk purgatoriale [L. ignis purgatorii].

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. f. 415 Our Righteousnes needeth not any Purgatoriall Expiation.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 500 Now leauing Prodigalls to their Purgatoriall Postings.

1693 W. Wotton tr. L. E. Du Pin New Hist. Eccl. Writers II. 79 He thinks that on this Day there will be a Purgatorial Fire to expiate the Sins of the Just.

1718 R. Fiddes Theologia Speculativa I. v. iv. 326 The doctrine of purgatory..would only hold for the purgation of the soul in a future state, and not as is asserted by the Papists, for a purgatorial or external fire.

1773 J. Wood Instit. Eccl. & Civil Polity v. 46 The regions of futurity are to be heated with purgatorial fire, smoke and brimstone.

1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 84 The sculptur'd dead..Emprison'd in black, purgatorial rails.

1842 H. Grote Let. 17 Dec. in Lewiin Lett. (1909) II. v. 17 I lost precisely 14 lb. of flesh in the 7 months I was absent—never spent such a purgatorial time in my life.

1880 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. II. 195/1 His [sc. Augustine's] own view of a purgatorial punishment for the baptized.

a1918 W. Owen Mental Cases in Poems (1920) 8 Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows, Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish.

1969 G. Greene Coll. Essays II. iii. 174 Between these bounds, between the Paradise and the Inferno, lay the weary purgatorial years.

1994 H. Bloom Western Canon iii. xiii. 327 The opposite fate is earned by Dorothea, who endures a purgatorial marriage to the impotent Casaubon.