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Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
1. An official list formerly compiled by the Roman Catholic Church of books and other publications which Church members were forbidden to read: "The first Index was issued in 1557 and it was revised at different times until it was abolished in 1966."
2. Etymology: from Latin, "list of forbidden books".
—Compiled from an entry in the
New Oxford American Dictionary, 3rd edition;
Oxford University Press, Inc.; New York, N.Y.; 2010; page 883.
This entry is located in the following unit: dic-, dict- (page 5)