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Definition of Purged
1. purge [v] - See also: purge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purged
Literary usage of Purged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Assemblies purged. [isoi- 01-2 rest were allowed to remain under the ...
The bodies, thus purged, were convoked in extraordinary session ; and the Concordat ..."
2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"Oxford is purged. \Ca. VL He was refused the communion, not perhaps as a spe ...
Oxford is Thus was Oxford purged of heresy. The state of innocence which ..."
3. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"To give effect to these instructions the King's life-guard of horse was at once
to be thoroughly purged, and orders were given to Sir John Brown to employ ..."
4. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"And so before the end of the year 1528 Oxford was purged of heresy.3 Whilst the
cardinal was thus plagued in the midst of great affairs by the uncongenial ..."
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