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expurgate
1620s, from L.
expurgatus
, pp. of
expurgare
"to cleanse out" (see
expurgation
). Related:
Expurgated
;
expurgating
. The earlier verb was simply
expurge
(late 15c.), from M.Fr.
expurger
.