Purgatory

piiFga-tor-i, adj., purging or cleans- ing expiatory. n. according to K. Catholic and some eastern religions, a place or state in which souls, are after death purified from venial sins. [Fr. purgatoire— L. purgaiorius. See Purge.] Purge, purj, it. to make pure: to carry off whatever impure or superfluous to clear from guilt to evacuate, as the bowels to clarify, as liquors to become pure by clarifying to have frequent evacuations. [Fr. — purger purge (for pnr-igoj—pur us, pure, ami ago, to do or make.]