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Definition of Expurgator
1. Noun. A person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages. "Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator"
Generic synonyms: Editor, Editor In Chief
Derivative terms: Bowdlerise, Bowdlerize, Expurgate
Definition of Expurgator
1. n. One who expurgates or purifies.
Definition of Expurgator
1. Noun. One who expurgates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expurgator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurgator
Literary usage of Expurgator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1820)
"... of the College of Physicians of Malta, during fifteen years thnt he attended
the Lazaretto, knew no instance of an expurgator of goods being affected. ..."
2. American Wit and Humor: Choice Selections from the Boundless Humor of by George Wilbur Peck, Bill Nye, M. Quad (1895)
"... than take them to live in a London flat, wrote the most of his plays with the
assistance of an expurgator who was out of the city most all of the time. ..."
3. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"... the expander and expurgator of Locke. With Locke, it will be remembered, the
distinction of moral good lay in the channel through which the pleasure, ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"Whoever he was, he can have little claim to be regarded as the original designer ;
he was rather employed as an expurgator ; for these plates are certainly ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"expurgator of his Styrian duchy, the destined champion of a systematic policy of
Catholic reaction and centralised monarchical rule. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1834)
"If she had ever read Shakspeare in ' Bowdler' for herself, which, of course, she
had too much wit to do, she would have discovered that the expurgator has ..."
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