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.