Definition of Expurge

1. v. t. To purge away.

Definition of Expurge

1. Verb. (obsolete) To purge away. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Expurge

1. to purify [v EXPURGED, EXPURGING, EXPURGES] - See also: purify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurge

expunger
expungers
expunges
expunging
expurgate
expurgated
expurgates
expurgating
expurgation
expurgations
expurgator
expurgatorial
expurgatorious
expurgators
expurgatory
expurge (current term)
expurged
expurges
expurging
exquisite
exquisitely
exquisiteness
exquisitenesses
exquisites
exquisitive
exquisitiveness
exradio
exrerience
exsanguinate
exsanguinated

Literary usage of Expurge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"The spleen concurs to this malady, by all their consents, and suppression of hemorrhoids, dum rum expurge! alter a causa lien, ..."

2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... vt emasculate, expurge (rare), castrate; spec, bowdlerize. extemporaneous, a. 1. extemporized, unpremeditated, spontaneous, extempore, improvised, ..."

3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To expurge, (eks-purje) vo. To purge away ; to expunge. EXQUISITELY, (eka'-kwe-iit-le) ad. Perfectly ; completely ; consummately. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"To expound ; to explain. (A.-N.) EXPULSE. To expel, or drive out. (Lot.) expurge. To purge, or cleanse out. ..."

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