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Definition of Expurgating
1. expurgate [v] - See also: expurgate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurgating
Literary usage of Expurgating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Methodist Review (1844)
"It is thus that she labours to fabricate what she calls the "unanimous consent
of the ancient fathers," by expurgating their works of all the testimony they ..."
2. Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by James Donald, William Chambers (1878)
"expurgating ; Pa.p. expurgated. ... or purifies. expurgation, eks-pur-gä'shun,
n., act of expurgating vt purifying. ..."
3. An Account of the Indexes: Both Prohibitory and Expurgatory, of the Church by Joseph Mendham (1826)
"His arguments, however, are conclusive, and eminently important; particularly
those, by which he establishes the charge of altering, or expurgating, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... be necessary in order to determine a mode of treatment effective enough for
practical use in expurgating sharks for experiments in artificial infection. ..."
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