expurge

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See also: expurgé

English

Etymology

From Middle French expurger, from Old French espurgier, from Latin expurgō (“purge, cleanse, purify”). See expurgate.

Verb

expurge (third-person singular simple present expurges, present participle expurging, simple past and past participle expurged)

(transitive, obsolete) To expurgate.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
  perfected those catalogues and expurging indexes

References

“expurge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Verb

expurge

inflection of expurger:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

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