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The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. [Obs.] An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.

To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. [Obs.] A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.

Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful. [R.] Sir A. Shirley.

surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. Boyle. Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament. M. Arnold.

The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights. W. Montagu. The expropriation of bad landlords. M. Arnold.

To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.

Capable of being expugnded.

The act of taking by assault; conquest. [R.] Sandys.

One who expugns.

To drive out; to expel. [Obs.] If charity be thus excluded and expulsed. Milton.

An expeller. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc. The expulsion of the Tarquins. Shak.

Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel. The expulsive power of a new affection. Chalmers.

The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged. Milton.

with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

y; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous. Milton.

One who expurgates or purifies.

Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman.