Index Expurgatorius
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Indices Expurgatorii
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Origin of Index Expurgatorius
< New Latin: literally, expurgatory index
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Just too late to be included in the latest edition of the Papal Index Expurgatorius appears Iconoclast Henry Louis Mencken's Treatise on the Gods.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have been," he writes to the King, "mine own Index Expurgatorius, that it may be read in all places.
From Bacon by John Morley
He had defied the traditions of Harvard, been excommunicated by his Alma Mater, published his pantheistic Essay on Nature, and his thin little books and sermons had been placed on the Boston Theological Index Expurgatorius.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
I may mention that Hart's Index Expurgatorius covers this wider ground for England, as far as it goes.
From Books Condemned to be Burnt by James Anson Farrer
The first Index Expurgatorius was published in 1546; the burning of Protestants began in 1559.
From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
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