depurgatory
depurgatory adjective: serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Adjective
depurgatory (comparative more depurgatory, superlative most depurgatory)
- Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
- Our SAVIOUR, Luke, 16. in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, describes the former as passing […] directly to the Place of eternal Torments, without mention of the purgatorial Fire; and Lazarus is described as being carried […] directly to Abrahams Bosom, without any mention of those...1749, Peter Whitfield, An essay upon the Supremacy and Infallibility pretended to by the Church of Rome, page 180
- “It deserves to be borne in mind, that the depurgatory functions ought, in order to preserve health, to be increased during gestation, as the debris of the foetal, as well as the maternal system, have to be eliminated by the organs of the mother. […]”1849, Leon C. Chesley, quoting William Tyler Smith, Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy, published 1978, page 28
Forms of depurgatory
| comparative | more depurgatory |
|---|---|
| superlative | most depurgatory |
Origin of depurgatory
From Latin dēpurgō (“to cleanse, purify”) + -atory.
Questions about depurgatory
- What does depurgatory mean?
- Depurgatory means serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
- What part of speech is depurgatory?
- Depurgatory is an adjective.
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