Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Expurgatory

Expurgatory , adjective

[Compare French expurgatoire.]

Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.
Expurgatory animadversions. — Sir T. Browne
Collocations (1)
Expurgatory Index , See Index Expurgatorius, under Index.