Word Meanings - CLEANSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
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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 oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart Shak. (more info) Etym:
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- PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - SCRUBBY
Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull. - BATHE
1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South. 2. To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold. 3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And - SPONGE
Any one of numerous species of Spongiæ, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiæ. 2. The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiæ , used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable - SCRUBBER
A gas washer. See under Gas. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing. - SCRUBBED
Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby. - PURGER
One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine. - SCOURAGE
Refuse water after scouring. - RINSER
One who, or that which, rinses. - SCRUBBOARD
A baseboard; a mopboard. - 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. - BATHER
One who bathes. - 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, - SCOURSE
See SCORSE - RINSE
1. To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing. 2. To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. "Like a glass did break i' the rinsing." Shak. - SCRUB
To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate. - SCOURGER
One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron. - ABSTERGENT
Serving to cleanse, detergent. - CLEANSER
One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot. - DISCOURAGING
Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv. - DISCOURSIVE
1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton. 2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden. 3. Inclined - DISCOURAGEMENT
1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; - DISCOURSE
fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range - REPURIFY
To purify again. - OFFSCOURING
That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45. - GLASS-SPONGE
A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella. - DISCOURSER
1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne. - IMBATHE
To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton. - DISCOURE
To discover. That none might her discoure. Spenser. - DISCOURTESY
Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert. - SPURGE
To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. W. Cartright.