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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purgatory \Pur"ga*to*ry\, a. [L. purgatorius.]
Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.
--Burke.
Purgatory \Pur"ga*to*ry\, n. [Cf. F. purgatoire.] A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Old French purgatore and directly from Medieval Latin purgatorium (St. Bernard, early 12c.), in Latin, "means of cleansing," noun use of neuter of purgatorius (adj.) "purging, cleansing," from purgat-, past participle stem of Latin purgare (see purge (v.)). Figurative use from late 14c.
Wiktionary
a. Tending to cleanse; expiatory. n. 1 (context theology English) In Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven 2 any situation causing suffering
WordNet
n. a temporary condition of torment or suffering; "a purgatory of drug abuse"
(theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
Wikipedia
Purgatory is Chicago Celtic punk band The Tossers fourth studio album. It was released in 2003 on Thick Records and was their last album with the label.
"Purgatory" is Iron Maiden's fifth single, released on 15 June 1981, and would be their last with singer Paul Di'Anno. It is the only single from Killers as the preceding release, " Twilight Zone", was not included on the album's original pressing. The single was reissued in 1990, on the same CD and 12" vinyl as the EP Maiden Japan, in the The First Ten Years box set.
Purgatory is, in Roman Catholic and other religious teachings, a temporary state of the dead.
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In Christian theology, and especially in Catholic theology, Purgatory (, via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is an intermediate state after physical death in which those destined for heaven "undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven". Only those who die in the state of grace but have not yet fulfilled the temporal punishment due to their sin can be in Purgatory, and therefore no one in Purgatory will remain forever in that state or go to hell. This notion has old roots.
The notion of Purgatory is associated particularly with the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church (in the Eastern sui juris churches or rites it is a doctrine, though it is not often called "Purgatory", but the "final purification" or the "final theosis"); Anglicans of the Anglo-Catholic tradition generally also hold to the belief, along with many Lutherans of High Church Lutheranism. Eastern Orthodox Churches believe in the possibility of a change of situation for the souls of the dead through the prayers of the living and the offering of the Divine Liturgy, and many Orthodox, especially among ascetics, hope and pray for a general apocatastasis. Judaism also believes in the possibility of after-death purification and may even use the word "purgatory" to present its understanding of the meaning of Gehenna. However, the concept of soul "purification" may be explicitly denied in these other faith traditions.
The word Purgatory has come to refer also to a wide range of historical and modern conceptions of postmortem suffering short of everlasting damnation, and is used, in a non-specific sense, to mean any place or condition of suffering or torment, especially one that is temporary.
Usage examples of "purgatory".
Pope Gregory the Great, in the sixth century, either borrowing some of the more objectionable features of the purgatory doctrine previously held by the heathen, or else devising the same things himself from a perception of the striking adaptedness of such notions to secure an enviable power to the Church, constructed, established, and gave working efficiency to the dogmatic scheme of purgatory ever since firmly defended by the papal adherents as an integral part of the Roman Catholic system.
Blanche Creamer, a lax, tumble-to-pieces, Greuze-ish looking blonde, whom the Widow hated because the men took to her, was purgatoried between the two old Doctors, and could see all the looks that passed between Dick Venner and his cousin.
Within an hour there was a new OpsAvocat, and a dozen Deified had gone to the electronic equivalent of purgatory.
The feast day of purgatory observed by papal Rome corresponds to the Lemuria celebrated by pagan Rome, and rests on the same doctrinal basis.
I took on the order of knight errantry which I profess, whose exercise extends even to doing good to souls in purgatory.
He added, with a sigh, that his only happiness was to feel himself out of the clutches of the monks, who had persecuted him, and made his life a perfect purgatory for fifteen years.
The Tribunal might well send him to hell who had endeavoured to escape from purgatory.
Even Jolie, who had become familiar with Purgatory and other aspects of the Afterlife, found herself becoming apprehensive.
Indeed, the rest of the world seemed drab and inert by contrast, a faded reflection of this bright image, forming a gray penumbral zone like some half-abandoned purgatory.
Growing swiftly conscious of all that in the Purgatory of the Present awaited him, Theos felt as though the earth-chasm that had swallowed up Al-Kyris in his dream had opened again before him, affrighting him with its black depth of nothingness and annihilation,--and in a sudden agony of self-distrust he gazed yearningly at the fair, wistful face above him, .
For her, a woman could not be made whole but by marriage unwed, unringed, we were half-souls crying in purgatory.
Agnes has always assumed her mother will be in Purgatory a very long time, as punishment for marrying Lord Unwin in the first place, and then for allowing him to rob her and Agnes of their religion.
Las Animas lay just ahead, beyond a bridge over a brook that brawled down to the Purgatory.
Joel Flint and Signer Canova too, with scattered among them and marking the date of that death too, the cautiously worded advertisements in Variety and Billboard, using the new changed name and no takers probably, since Signer Canova the Great was already dead then and already serving his purgatory in this circus for six months and that circus for eightbandsman, ringman, Bornean wild man, down to the last stage where he touched bottom: the travelling from country town to country town with a roulette wheel wired against imitation watches and pistols which would not shoot, until one day instinct perhaps showed him one more chance to use the gift again.
There was a rush of speed and the colors grew muddy as Bruja fell from purgatory, and then the hull above her clouded and grew solid.