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Definition of Expugned
1. expugn [v] - See also: expugn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expugned
Literary usage of Expugned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"For they seemed nothing else but even the people of some great city expugned by
siege, and making their escape. For the whole number that marched, ..."
2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"A pleading may be referred to a master to have impertinent matter expugned at
the cost of the offending party ; Story, Eq. PI. I 266; Langdon v. ..."
3. The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets: Never Before in Any Language Truly by Homer, George Chapman, William Cooke Taylor (1843)
"THE Gods in council, at the last decree That famous Ilion shall expugned" be.
And that their own continued faults may prove The reasons that have so ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... out the injustice of the Bill in question with so much success, that it was
reconsidered, and the clauses which affected his friend's property expugned. ..."
5. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1833)
"... they derivatives ; he the Augmentum primum, they Orta, who though they have
light in se, yet not ex se. This assertion is not expugned by ..."
6. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"He hath expugned and utterly conquered a great number of the captains of ignorance.
The eight parts of speech he hath made them his subjects and servants, ..."
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