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Definition of Expurge
1. v. t. To purge away.
Definition of Expurge
1. Verb. (obsolete) To purge away. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expurge
1. to purify [v EXPURGED, EXPURGING, EXPURGES] - See also: purify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurge
Literary usage of Expurge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"The spleen concurs to this malady, by all their consents, and suppression of
hemorrhoids, dum rum expurge! alter a causa lien, ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... vt emasculate, expurge (rare), castrate; spec, bowdlerize. extemporaneous, a.
1. extemporized, unpremeditated, spontaneous, extempore, improvised, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To expurge, (eks-purje) vo. To purge away ; to expunge. EXQUISITELY, (eka'-kwe-iit-le)
ad. Perfectly ; completely ; consummately. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"To expound ; to explain. (A.-N.) EXPULSE. To expel, or drive out. (Lot.) expurge.
To purge, or cleanse out. ..."
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