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Index Expurgatorius

[ in-deks ik-spur-guh-tawr-ee-uhs, -tohr- ]

noun

Roman Catholic Church.
plural Indices Expurgatorii
  1. a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Index Expurgatorius1

< New Latin: literally, expurgatory index
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See Immoral works.Index expurgatorius, 17, 160.Index of registrations, 300, 304; � 56, 485;C. � 22, 567.India,

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Foreign manufacturing provisions Holland is the only country in Europe which requires that the deposit copies shall be printed within the country and thus makes manufacture a condition of copyright—an inheritance probably from the times when the printer-publishers of the Protestant Netherlands were the only ones printing the books barred in Catholic countries by the index expurgatorius, and when deposit was naturally required from them.

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Throughout Catholic countries the index expurgatorius banned for the most part the printing of forbidden books; and this made Holland later the chief centre of printing, since the placing of a work in the index invited prompt reprint by Dutch publishers.

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So we can all draw up our own private "Index Expurgatorius" of the people we bar or dislike.

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Getting hurt gratuitously is slipping into the index expurgatorius of modern field sports.

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