expurgatorious

English

Adjective

expurgatorious (comparative more expurgatorious, superlative most expurgatorious)

1. (obsolete) expurgatory
   • 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, pages 7–8:

     The Romans had a time once every year, when their Slaves might freely ſpeake their minds, twere hard if the free borne people of England, with whom the voyce of Truth for theſe many yeares, even againſt the proverb, hath not bin heard but in corners, after all your Monkiſh prohibitions, and expurgatorious indexes, your gags and ſnaffles, your proud Imprimaturs not to be obtain’d without the ſhallow ſurview, but not ſhallow hand of ſome mercenary, narrow Soul’d, and illitterate Chaplain; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “expurgatorious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)