Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

depurgatory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: depur-ga-to-ry
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.

Example Sentences

"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 depurgatory' Flames […]"
"“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. […]”"
"Patients who suffered from typical unilateral pulsatile headaches with nausea weren't diagnosed with migraine, but with so-called liver outbursts […] and "treated" with gallbladder depurgatory drugs."

Etymology

From Latin dēpurgō (“to cleanse, purify”) + -atory.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: dēpurgō

Inflected Forms

more depurgatory (comparative) most depurgatory (superlative)

Questions

What does depurgatory mean?: Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Where does depurgatory come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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