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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.

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  • 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.

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