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Definition of Expurged
1. expurge [v] - See also: expurge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurged
Literary usage of Expurged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"... because they are censured and expurged only by the order of the Roman Index,
are of a more doubtful nature. There was also in the beginning of this age, ..."
2. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"... because they are censured and expurged only by the order of the Roman Index,
are of a more doubtful nature. There was also in the beginning of this age ..."
3. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1892)
"were to be expurged. ( (The reference is to the Acts of the University in
Convocation contained in the Register of Convocations from 23 Oct. 1647 to 6 Sept. ..."
4. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1892)
"... expurged. ', (The reference is to the Acts of the University in Convocation
contained in the Register of Convocations from 33 Oct. 1647 to 6 Sept. ..."
5. The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Walter Scott, William James Rolfe (1898)
"... With heart expurged of rancour, tame of greeds ; With the winged mind from
fang and claw released;— Will such a land be seen ? ..."
6. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year by Edwin Emerson, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Maurice Magnus (1900)
"... and his book was placed on the papal index of expurged writings. Similar opposition
was raised to his "Jesus," a life of the Saviour written in the ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"... has led to the detection of the disease before any trembling set in.
This peculiarity in the odor of the expurged air —a sweetish foulness ..."
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