Word Meanings - DEFECATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified. Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense. Bates.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFECATE)
- Filter
- Strain
- percolate
- refine
- distil
- ooze
- exude
- leak
- depurate
- defecate
- clarify
- Stretch
- tighten
- force
- exert
- filter
- filtrate
- purify
- lixiviate
Related words: (words related to DEFECATE)
- PERCOLATE
To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale. - FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - EXERT
out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of - 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 - TIGHTENER
That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley. - DISTILLABLE
Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. - DISTILLATION
The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible - STRAINING
from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post. - REFINED
Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n. - DISTILLATORY
Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n. - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - LIXIVIATE
To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances. - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - FORCEMENT
The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster. - REFINEMENT
1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt - STRETCHING
from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton. - REFINER
One who, or that which, refines. - STRAINED
1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained. - DEPURATE
Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. Boyle. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - PREFINE
To limit beforehand. Knolles. - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden. - INFILTRATE
To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison. - INFILTER
To filter or sift in. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.