expurgatory

• Shortly, if an expurgatory index were compiled of those, and all other sorts of men, who either through their careless and neutral on looking, make no help to the troubled and disquieted church of Christ, or through their nocent accession and overthwart intermeddling, work out her greater harm, alas! how few feeling members were there to be found behind who truly lay to heart her estate and condition? —  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
• They assume that the parties are guilty; they call upon the parties to establish their innocence; and declare that such innocence can only be shown in one way -- by an inquisition in the form of an expurgatory oath into the consciences of the parties. " —  Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective
• They, too, have been lately subjected to an expurgatory scrutiny, to drive out from them everything savoring of what they call the crime of _moderantism_, of which offence, however, few were guilty. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)
• It is difficult to speak of the whole system of expurgatory oaths for past conduct without a shudder at the suffering and oppression they were not only capable of effecting but often did effect. —  Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State
• The whole subject of expurgatory oaths was discussed, and all that could be said on either side was fully and elaborately presented. —  Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State

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