英语词汇expurgate的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	expurgate
词源	expurgate v. 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 French expurger. Meaning "remove (something offensive or erroneous) from" is from 1670s. Entries linking to expurgate expurgation n. early 15c., expurgacion, "a cleansing from impurity," from Latin expurgationem (nominative expurgatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of expurgare "to cleanse out, purge, purify; clear from censure, vindicate, justify," from ex "out" (see ex-) + purgare "to purge" (see purge (v.)). Sense of "a removal of objectionable passages from a literary work" is recorded in English from 1610s. Related: Expurgatory. unexpurgated adj. 1882, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of expurgate (v.). updated on December 07, 2020
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