Purgatorial

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Purgatorial \Pur`ga*to"ri*al\, Purgatorian \Pur`ga*to"ri*an\, a.
     Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  purgatorial
       adj 1: serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites" [syn: {purging},
               {purifying}]
       2: of or resembling purgatory; "purgatorial fires"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "purgatorial":
     Acherontic, Lethean, Plutonian, Plutonic, Stygian, Tartarean,
     apologetic, ascetic, atoning, chthonian, chthonic, cleansing,
     compensational, compensatory, devilish, expiatory, expurgatory,
     hellborn, hellish, infernal, lustral, lustrational, lustrative,
     pandemoniac, pandemonic, penitential, piacular, propitiatory,
     purgative, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming,
     redemptive, redressing, reparative, reparatory, repentant,
     repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting,
     satisfactional, squaring, sulfurous