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Definition of Expurgates
1. expurgate [v] - See also: expurgate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurgates
Literary usage of Expurgates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"When she finds a sentence she cannot understand, she hopes to escape detection
by a meaningless paraphrase or silent omission. She even expurgates ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1841)
"These are selections from most of the classic authors, and editiones expurgates
of some. The University has not given its sanction to any complete or ..."
3. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1909)
"Eunapius' likewise, who in many respects is elegant and urbane, mars his style
by infelicities of diction. In style he is elegant if one expurgates such ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... the Queen of Navarre on the other is not likely, however, to appeal to that
part of the English and American reading public that expurgates its Chaucer, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1872)
"The theory of the law is that the punishment expurgates the guilt, and that when
the. offender leaves prison he is no longer to be treated as a guilty man, ..."
6. The Works of William H. Seward by William Henry Seward (1888)
"The day has even not yet passed when the press, employed in the service of
education and morality, expurgates from the books which are put into the hands of ..."
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