1.
[syn: purgatorial, purging, purifying]
2. of or resembling purgatory;
- Example: "purgatorial fires"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Purgatorial \Pur`ga*to"ri*al\, Purgatorian \Pur`ga*to"ri*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
purgatorial
adj 1: serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites" [syn:
purgatorial, purging, purifying]
2: of or resembling purgatory; "purgatorial fires"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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