purgatorial fires.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

purgatorial rites.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : purgatorial rites.    From Dictionary.com. 

There is no reference to anything in the nature of what Roman Catholics call purgatorial fires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference

A common view is that this "purgatorial" version of Gehinnom lasts no longer than twelve months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canterbury Tales by Taylor Marshall] Reference

Lordy, Dave, that book sound positively purgatorial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The return of the Point-of-View Nazis, Part II: ve haf veys of making your POV singular] Reference

This lends the movie a feeling of purgatorial entrapment.    From Wordnik.com.  [HBO's 'Sunset Limited' review: All aboard the theological choo-choo] Reference

"A purgatorial sentence is one that answers a question.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 04, April, 1889] Reference

Newman has an interesting chararization of purgatorial suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flame of Everlasting Love] Reference

Manuel prayed out loud as they climbed the purgatorial scarp above Lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas] Reference

It was that purgatorial step between African slavery and American wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference

I have six novels in various purgatorial layers of hellish existence, at present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stoves and Weasels...] Reference

At last the breeze brought to our ears a purgatorial chorus of cries, sobs, and shrieks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

But this now was a purgatorial impotence, after the decisions had been made and the process initiated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not the End of the World]

His sufferings all the time, day in and day out, at home and abroad, are real -- intense -- purgatorial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stammering, Its Cause and Cure] Reference

Her hard earnings paid him for the prayers he offered for the deliverance of her father from his purgatorial woes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference

We endured the same vapid wasteland of sixties variety TV—especially the purgatorial torments of The Ed Sullivan Show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Words] Reference

The Roman Catholic and the Restorationist answer, in purgatorial fire, or in some kind of a second probation after death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theology of Holiness] Reference

Beneath is the tomb, the body, and the stone rolled away; and at the left are bars and flames, and poor creatures in purgatorial fires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

It would make for a refreshing contrast with the gloomy, purgatorial spirit that affects the regular characters as they go about their work.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the mad men and all the mad women are looking for meaningful work] Reference

The evening meal was transformed into a purgatorial discipline, and as he progressed from course to course Frank's mind was purified as by fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [By the Christmas Fire] Reference

They seem to be working out some unfinished earthly business, or suffering some purgatorial purification until released from their earthly business.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Are Ghosts?] Reference

These facts show luridly against the sky of woman's world, but perhaps few men know what purgatorial fires they light in many a woman's heart to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

Center stage is the purgatorial presence of the moribund narrator, the decrepit Krapp of the play Krapp's Last Tape being perhaps the most famous example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beckett: Still Stirring] Reference

Unlike the purgatorial ghosts who come back primarily for their own sakes, these bright spirits come back for the sake of us the living, to tell us all is well.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Are Ghosts?] Reference

Then again, this is a Unitarian wedding I'm playing — maybe surrounding the tune with all those everybody's-welcome-here vibes will stick in Richard's purgatorial craw.    From Wordnik.com.  [What fools these mortals be] Reference

"Madame, I have sinned in my day, perhaps to merit purgatorial fires; but, without false modesty, I do not think that I have justly incurred the penalty you propose to me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

I spent most of my time in those purgatorial waiting rooms where the magazines are old, the cushions on the chairs are thin, and the TV is always bolted high in one corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duma Key]

In Roth's purgatorial economy, in which the dying spend psychological eternity brooding over their blunders, indignation is both the consequence and cause of a young man's woes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven G. Kellman: Indignation Review: Philip Roth Does the 1950s] Reference

Upwards of four months were spent at this purgatorial work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference

Winstanley is so strong that purgatorial fires would hardly burn it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference

The general conflagration and purgatorial fire were among the tenets of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

Continental scholars to compulsory residence and labour in places so akin to the purgatorial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

By two o'clock on the morning of the 15th July this purgatorial vessel was moored by the Bell Rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of a Family of Engineers] Reference

Philip was passing through a purgatorial fire, and his old master was feeding it with fuel on every side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference

Being at the Bow is purgatorial, a terrestrial isolation, like walking across Reykjavik, as foreign as the moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guernica Magazine] Reference