Index Librorum Prohibitorum

[ in-deks-lahy-brawr-uhm proh-hib-i-tawr-uhm, -brohr-uhm proh-hib-i-tohr-, lee- ]

/ ˈɪn dɛks laɪˈbrɔr əm proʊˌhɪb ɪˈtɔr əm, -ˈbroʊr əm proʊˌhɪb ɪˈtoʊr-, li- /

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noun, plural In·di·ces Li·bro·rum Pro·hib·i·to·rum

[in-duh-seez lahy-brawr-uhm proh-hib-i-tawr-uhm, -brohr-uhm proh-hib-i-tohr-, lee-]. /ˈɪn dəˌsiz laɪˈbrɔr əm proʊˌhɪb ɪˈtɔr əm, -ˈbroʊr əm proʊˌhɪb ɪˈtoʊr-, li-/. Roman Catholic Church.

a list of books forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions or by special permission.

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Origin of Index Librorum Prohibitorum

<New Latin: index of prohibited books

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How to use Index Librorum Prohibitorum 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.
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The country was ranked 144 of 177 nations surveyed by Transparency International in its 2013 graft perception index.
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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.
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Wright and his followers regard the opsonic index as an index of the power of the body to combat bacterial invasion.
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A low color-index probably indicates a mild type of the disease.
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The color-index is thus almost invariably low, the average being about 0.5.
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The changes in hemoglobin and red cells resemble those of a moderate symptomatic anemia, with rather low color-index.
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British Dictionary definitions for Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

/ Latin (ˈɪndɛks laɪˈbrɔːrʊm prəʊˌhɪbɪˈtɔːrʊm) /

noun

RC Church (formerly) an official list of proscribed booksOften called: the Index

Word Origin for Index Librorum Prohibitorum

C17, literally: list of forbidden books

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