purgatorian, a. and n. rare.
(pɜːgəˈtɔərɪən)
[f. med.L. purgātōri-um purgatory n. + -an.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or relating to purgatory; purgatorial.
| a 1624 R. Crakanthorp Vigil. Dorm. (1631) 314 Their Purgatorian fire, their five new-found proper Sacraments, condignity of workes, yea Supererogation, and an armie of like heresies. 1687 Advise to Testholders xi. in Third Coll. Poems (1689) 21/2 When all the Purgatorian flames have past. 1841 J. H. Newman Tract XC 25 Another doctrine, purgatorian, but not Romish, is that said to be maintained by the Greeks at Florence. |
B. n. A believer in purgatory.
| a 1550 Image Ipocr. iv. 191 in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 441 So be ther Sophrans,..Purgatorians, Chalomerians, And Ambrosians. 1772 Johnson in Boswell (Mar.), We must either suppose that passage to be metaphorical, or hold, with many divines and all the Purgatorians, that departed souls do not all at once arrive at the utmost perfection. 1839 J. Rogers Antipapopr. 272 Important to be upheld by the rigid purgatorian. |
b. A soul in purgatory.
| 1607 R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 304 The soules of those poore Purgatorians..returned backe. |