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Definition of Expurgatorial
1. a. Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory.
Definition of Expurgatorial
1. Adjective. Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expurgatorial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurgatorial
Literary usage of Expurgatorial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"... of controversial library, as to works from 1700 to tracts. In a volume of
these tracts an old pea- near 1750. It would seem as if an expurgatorial ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1868)
"... did not call in the expurgatorial help of some friend, ¡Hid so weed out soma
of tho album verses which seem unworthy of his power. ..."
3. Popular Science Monthly (1902)
"... hardly even roughly regular and by no means such departures from plausibility
as to be without the scientific expurgatorial pale. ..."
4. The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith (1920)
"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 ..."
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