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Expurgatory. [Obs.] "Expurgatorious indexes." Milton.

Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying. "Expurgatory animadversions." Sir T. Browne. Expurgatory Index. See Index Expurgatorius, under Index.

To rove. Bp. Warburton.

A wandering beyond limits; excess. [Obs.] Smollett.

Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.] Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

Weariness. [Obs.] W. Montaqu.

Same as Forgather.

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.] Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.

iated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increas…

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.

in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue. -- n.

To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.

One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.

Having the quality of purifying by smoke. [R.]

A salt of fungic acid. [Formerly written also fungiate.]

To cudgel. [R.] Bailey.

nishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling. This satire, composed of actual fustigation. Motley.

Agate. [Obs.] Fuller.