Word Meanings - DETERGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.

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• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• ULCER
  A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• ULCERATION
  The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.
• PURGER
  One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
• OFFENDER
  One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer. I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. 1 Kings i. 21.
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• 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.
• ULCERATED
  Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.
• 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,
• ULCERATIVE
  Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process.
• MATTER-OF-FACT
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• MATTERY
  1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
• ULCERABLE
  Capable of ulcerating.
• CLEANSER
  One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
• ULCERATE
  To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.
• ULCERED
  Ulcerous; ulcerated.
• MATTER
  That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form. Mansel. (more info) 1. That of which anything is composed; constituent
• OFFEND
  To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall. Who hath you misboden or offended. Chaucer. If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out... And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off. Matt. v. 29, 3O. Great peace
• ADEN ULCER
  A disease endemic in various parts of tropical Asia, due to a specific microörganism which produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc.
• EXULCERATION
  1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
• EXULCERATORY
  Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.
• EXULCERATIVE
  Tending to cause ulcers; exulceratory. Holland.
• SMATTERER
  One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
• SUBJECT-MATTER
  The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
• SPURGE
  To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. W. Cartright.
• SMATTERING
  A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.