| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb depurgatorily.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (depurgatorily) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective depurgatory.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DEPURGATORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Note: Depurgatory \De*pur"ga*to*ry\, adjective. Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [obsolete]. (references) |
