Index Expurgatorius

[ in-deks ik-spur-guh-tawr-ee-uhs, -tohr- ]

/ ˈɪn dɛks ɪkˌspɜr gəˈtɔr i əs, -ˈtoʊr- /

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noun, plural In·di·ces Ex·pur·ga·to·ri·i

[in-duh-seez-ikspur-guh-tawr-ee-ahy, -tohr-]. /ˈɪn dəˌsizˌɪkspɜr gəˈtɔr iˌaɪ, -ˈtoʊr-/. Roman Catholic Church.

a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.

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Origin of Index Expurgatorius

<New Latin: literally, expurgatory index

Words nearby Index Expurgatorius

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How to use Index Expurgatorius in a sentence

A helpful pictorial index provides photographs of the actual objects.
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There is an expanded place-name index with more than 150,000 entries, and separate undersea, Moon, and Mars features.
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He stuck his index finger in the red welt around the spot where bin Laden shot me.
I Shot Bin Laden|Elliot Ackerman|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The country was ranked 144 of 177 nations surveyed by Transparency International in its 2013 graft perception index.
Corruption Eats Away at Ukraine Military|Charles McPhedran|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

He soon invents the “Efram Daniels Expulsion Index (EDEI) … a hybrid futures and prediction market.”
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The degree of pallor furnishes a rough index to the amount of hemoglobin in the corpuscle.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Wright and his followers regard the opsonic index as an index of the power of the body to combat bacterial invasion.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
A low color-index probably indicates a mild type of the disease.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The color-index is thus almost invariably low, the average being about 0.5.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The changes in hemoglobin and red cells resemble those of a moderate symptomatic anemia, with rather low color-index.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd