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Definition of Expurgated
1. Adjective. Having material deleted. "At that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions"
Definition of Expurgated
1. Adjective. Having had erroneous, obscene, or other objectionable material removed. ¹
2. Verb. (past of expurgate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expurgated
1. expurgate [v] - See also: expurgate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurgated
Literary usage of Expurgated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"... lost his entire medical practice, and was obliged to remove to London, where
an expurgated edition of the play appeared in the same year. ..."
2. Contemporary France by Gabriel Hanotaux (1905)
"The summer session—The Duc de Broglie's constitutional projects—Representation
of " interests "—Universal suffrage "expurgated"—Organisation ..."
3. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"... which require the use of an expurgated edition of Horace! Great care was taken
that the boys should not have much spend- Doling out ing money. ..."
4. John Drew by Edward Augustus Dithmar (1900)
"The play was Cibber's She Would and She Would Not, written in imitation of the
Spanish comedy of Intrigue, and much shortened and expurgated for modern use. ..."
5. The Latin Church in the Middle Ages by André Lagarde, Archibald Alexander (1915)
"... promising to reverse this measure only when the writings of Aristotle should
have been expurgated.1 For some time the faculty of arts obeyed the ..."
6. Tricolored Sketches in Paris: During the Years 1851-2-3 by Frank Boott Goodrich (1855)
"... and leaving no will, his treasure reverts to the hospitals, or is claimed by
the Domaine Publique. CHAPTER V. REVISION AGAIN—AN Expurgated ..."
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