expurge

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

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

1. (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

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

expurge

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