expurgatorial

American  

[ik-spur-guh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-] / ɪkˌspɜr gəˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr- /

adjective

1. pertaining to an expurgator or to expurgation.

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Etymology

Origin of expurgatorial

First recorded in 1800–10; expurgator(y) + -ial

Example Sentences

But why go on with this expurgatorial catalogue?

From Project Gutenberg

“Chaque pays a ses coutumes,” said he; but in the report of any gendarme, perhaps corruptly eager to increase the number of d�lits and the instruments of his own power, custom after custom is placed on the expurgatorial index.

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Or, secondly and lastly, tracts, treatises, essays; pandects, codes, institutes; primers, rosaries, romances; travels, synods, history books; digests, decretals, lives; commentaries anagogical, allegorical, or tropological; journals, expositions, vocabularies, pilgrimages, manuals, indexes common or expurgatorial; almanacks, bulls, constitutions, or lottery books, viz. i. e. namely, to wit, or, that is to say, FINIS.

From Project Gutenberg

When we remember that the greatest works of literature, such as the Divine Comedy, were tampered with, and that, in the Spanish Expurgatorial Index of 1640 the list of passages to be deleted or to be altered in Erasmus's works takes 59 double-columned, closely printed folio pages, we can easily see the point of Milton's indignant protest.

From Project Gutenberg

On the subject of Slavery he had already given expression to his thoughts in language which at the present day, in certain portions of the United States, must subject his works to a strict expurgatorial process.

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