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nounthe capital and largest city of Mongolia
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- dante an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)
- indulgence the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution
- aloes a purgative made from the leaves of aloe
- purgatorial of or resembling purgatory
- bowdlerism censorship in the form of prudish expurgation
- myrtle spurge poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil
- jatropha curcus small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities
- cabbage tree tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
- bowdler English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825)
- rauvolfia any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives