Word Meanings - EXPURGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To purge away. Milton.

Related words: (words related to EXPURGE)

• PURGER
  One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
• PURGERY
  The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
• PURGE
  To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. 5. To clear from guilt,
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SPURGE
  To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. W. Cartright.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SPURGEWORT
  Any euphorbiaceous plant. Lindley.
• EXPURGE
  To purge away. Milton.