1620s, "to purge" (in anatomy), back-formation from expurgation or from Latin expurgatus, past participle of expurgare "to cleanse out, purge, purify." Related: Expurgated; expurgating. The earlier verb was simply expurge (late 15c.), from Middle French expurger. Meaning "remove (something offensive or erroneous) from" is from 1670s.
雙語例句
1. He is capabled of bring out an expurgate edit 0 ion of wordsworth.
他幾乎做的出出版華茲華斯作品的刪改本(潔本).
來自互聯網
2. To expurgate ( a book, for example ) prudishly.