absterge

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  1. To wipe, or make clean by wiping; wash away. Baths are used to absterge, belike, that fulsomeness of sweat to which they are there subject. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 286.
  2. In medicine: To cleanse by lotions, as a wound or ulcer. To purge. See deterge.

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  • My lord, no, said the scholar; for libentissimally, as soon as it illucesceth any minutule slice of the day, I demigrate into one of these so well architected minsters, and there, irrorating myself with fair lustral water, I mumble off little parcels of some missic precation of our sacrificuls, and, submurmurating my horary precules, I elevate and absterge my anime from its nocturnal inquinations. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2
 

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  1. from Latin abstergēre, wipe off, from abs, off, + tergēre, wipe: see terse.
 

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