单词 | repurgation |
释义 | repurgationn. Chiefly Church History. Renewed purgation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > reform amendinga1325 reformation1449 renovation1563 repurgation1564 revocation1579 reform1606 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > [noun] > again repurgation1564 1564 tr. M. Flacius Illyricus Godly Admon. Decrees Counsel of Trent Pref. sig. B.i And who would not be glad to helpe such a one which promiseth repurgation of the doctrine of the Church. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 347 Repurgation is, whereby mettals and other substances are purged from superfluities of another nature, adhering to them. 1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies ii. iii. 17 Who promised some Reformation and Repurgation of superstitious worships. 1728 W. Kennett Reg. & Chron. Eccl. & Civil 147 That he may..have a fervent Zeal to the Repurgation of the Church of Jesus Christ. 1769 F. Blackburne Occas. Remarks: Pt. 2 65 The repurgation of them consisted in inflicting fines and imprisonments, whippings..and other wholesome severities of the Pillory and the Gibbet. 1826 S. T. Bloomfield Recensio Synoptica III. x. 402 It here signifies the feast instituted in memory of the repurgation of the temple defiled by Antiochus. 1943 Church Hist. 12 88 This rite is not so much an absolute reordination as a reforming and ‘repurgation’ of the former ordinations. 1981 A. Carter tr. M. Tournier Gemini (1998) ii. 28 A far-reaching organization extending to six cities..with all of which it had contracts for ‘repurgation’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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