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What does expurgatory mean?

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Adjective
  1. serving to expurgate
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It was both a prohibitory and an expurgatory Index in one stout volume.
After his death, his Apology for John Fero was inserted in the expurgatory index.
It is this index which is still in force, but the prohibitions and expurgatory measures have since been multiplied.
It was even inserted in the expurgatory index of the Council of Trent, on the false supposition that heretics had corrupted it.

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