Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
expurgatory .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Expurgatory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
expurgatory
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Examples
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Yes, they should be held extenuate for risking their lives for what they believed to be right, inasmuch as the Constitution with correct annotation by competent commentators was a volume virtually of the expurgatorious order, neither to be touched, tasted, handled, swallowed, or discussed, for fear of dread contamination, subjecting the presumptions culprit to social purgatorial penalty.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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It cannot be said that this was felt to be a hardship by the lads -- rather the contrary, I am afraid -- when the weather and the season of the year permitted them to spend the time in the garden, or when a new book, not in the "Index expurgatorious" of Sabbath reading was at hand, or even a beloved old one.
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