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Definition of Expurgators
1. expurgator [n] - See also: expurgator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurgators
Literary usage of Expurgators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Yellow Fever, Considered in Its Historical, Pathological, Etiological, and by René La Roche (1855)
"There were also amongst the number of expurgators and persons employed in removing
the sick and burying the dead at Cephalonia, several who had the plague ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1839)
"These expurgators, conveying the sick to the hospital and the dead to their
graves, disinfecting their houses and destroying tainted articles, ..."
3. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1825)
"Government are in possession of the very dispatches of Mr. Hopp- ner, which
announced this example of communicated plague to the expurgators; and yet no ..."
4. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1815)
"Among those attacked with plague this month, were nine sextons, seven expurgators,
five guards, and four hospital servants. At the beginning of November, ..."
5. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1823)
"Thus of twelve persons employed as expurgators and hospital-attendants at Corfu,
ten had the plague at Malta three years previously, and the other two, ..."
6. Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the by Oliver Cromwell (1868)
"An truly we have settled very much of the business of the Ministry;— [" Triers "
diligent here, " expurgators " diligent everywhere; much good work ..."
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