Meanings
verbexpurge (third-person singular simple present expurges, present participle expurging, simple past and past participle expurged)
present singular third person expurges · participle present expurging · participle past expurged · past expurged
- obsoletetransitiveTo expurgate.
perfected those catalogues and expurging indexes
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
Origin
- Old Frenchespurgier
- Middle Frenchexpurger
- Englishexpurge
From Middle French expurger, from Old French espurgier, from Latin expurgō (“purge, cleanse, purify”). See expurgate.
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