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Cleansing; purging. -- n.

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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
  • ABSTERSIVENESS
    The quality of being abstersive. Fuller.
  • ABSTERSIVE
    Cleansing; purging. Bacon.
  • SCOURAGE
    Refuse water after scouring.
  • DETERGENT
    Cleansing; purging. -- n.
  • SCOURSE
    See SCORSE
  • SCOURGER
    One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron.
  • SCOUR
    To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. Pope. Scouring barrel, a tumbling barrel. See under Tumbling. -- Scouring cinder , a basic slag,
  • SCOURER
    1. One who, or that which, scours. 2. A rover or footpad; a prowling robber. In those days of highwaymen and scourers. Macaulay.
  • SCOURGE
    stripped off , fr. excoriate to strip, to skin. See 1. A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip. Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • DISCOURTEOUS
    Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n.
  • DISCOURAGER
    One who discourages. The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis.
  • DISCOURTSHIP
    Want of courtesy. B. Jonson.
  • DISCOURAGEABLE
    Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Bp. Hall.

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