Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bowdlerize"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bowdlerize \Bowd"ler*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowdlerized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Bowdlerizing}.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an
English physician, who published an expurgated edition of
Shakespeare in 1818.]
To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts
considered offensive.
It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones
. . . that a Bowlderized version of it would be hardly
intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison.
-- {Bowd`ler*i*za"tion}, n. -- {Bowd"ler*ism}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bowdlerize
v : edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
"bowdlerize a novel" [syn: {bowdlerise}, {expurgate}, {shorten}]
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