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Expurgate   Listen
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Expurgate  v. t.  (past & past part. expurgated; pres. part. expurgating)  To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.






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"Expurgate" Quotes from Famous Books



... without him we cannot stir in it at all. A true king, temporary king, that dare undertake the government of Britain, on condition of beginning in sacred earnest to "reform" it, not at this or that extremity, but at the heart and centre. That will expurgate Downing Street, and the practical Administration of our Affairs; clear out its accumulated mountains of pendantries and cobwebs; bid the Pedants and the Dullards depart, bid the Gifted and the Seeing enter and inhabit. ...
— Latter-Day Pamphlets • Thomas Carlyle



Words linked to "Expurgate" :   cut, reduce, shorten, castrate, foreshorten, bowdlerize, abridge, abbreviate, bowdlerise, expurgation, expurgator



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