expurge

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)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To purge away.
   • 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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “expurge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Verb

expurge

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