abluted

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“
He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.

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  • He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. —  Ulysses
 

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  1. From ablution, on the model of such pairs as dilution, diluted.
 

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