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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To throw off impurities; froth; form froth or scum; clarify.
  2. To throw off in froth.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

Etymologies

  1. Latin despumatus, past participle of despumare to despume; de- + spumare to foam, froth, spuma froth, scum. (Wiktionary)

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  • “Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.”

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

  • “The scholar answered, We transfretate the Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.”

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2

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