Word Meanings - ABSTERSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cleansing; purging. Bacon.

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• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• PURGATORY
  Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke.
• PURGATORIAL; PURGATORIAN
  Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.
• PURGER
  One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
• PURGATIVELY
  In a purgative manner.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• PURGERY
  The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
• PURGAMENT
  A cathartic; a purgative. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which is excreted; excretion.
• PURGE
  To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. 5. To clear from guilt,
• PURGATORIAN
  One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory. Boswell.
• PURGING
  That purges; cleansing. Purging flax , an annual European plant of the genus Linum ; dwarf wild flax; -- so called from its use as a cathartic medicine.
• CLEANSER
  One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
• PURGATION
  The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that
• PURGATIVE
  Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic. -- n.
• EXPURGATORIAL
  Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman.
• EXPURGATOR
  One who expurgates or purifies.
• EXPURGATE
  To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book. (more info) purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge,
• COMPURGATION
  The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. 2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. He was privileged from
• SUPERPURGATION
  Excessive purgation. Wiseman.
• DEPURGATORY
  Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. Cotgrave.
• SPURGING
  A purging. B. Jonson.
• SPURGE
  To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. W. Cartright.
• COMPURGATORIAL
  Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. "Their compurgatorial oath." Milman.
• EXPURGATORY
  Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying. "Expurgatory animadversions." Sir T. Browne. Expurgatory Index. See Index Expurgatorius, under Index.