Definition of "expurgator" [ex•pur•ga•tor]

• One who expurgates. (noun)

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• "But when Herman and Verman set to 't the record must be no more than a few fragments left by the expurgator."
• "Kyrie, expurgator scelerum et largitor gratitæ; quæsumus propter nostrasoffensas noli nos relinquere, O consolator dolentis animæ, eleyson (ed. Burntisland, 929)."
• "Whoever he was, he can have little claim to be regarded as the original designer; he was rather employed as an expurgator; for these plates are certainly copies of the two sets of plates invented and engraved by Hogarth himself in 1726."