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(obsolete) expurgatory
1641, , Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: ">…] 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;