mundify

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Poultices made from the herb are applied to cleanse and heal chronic sores, which, as Gerard teaches, "they do scour and mundify."

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  1. To cleanse; make clean; purify. Here mercury, here hellebore, Old ulcers mundifying. Drayton, Muses' Elysium, v. Whatever stains were theirs, let them reside In that pure place, and they were mundified. Crabbe, Works, VIII. 132.
  2. To do something by way of cleansing. To cleanse and mundifie where need is. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxiii. 4. Or at least forces him, upon the ungrateful inconveniency, to steer to the next barber's shop, to new rig and mundifie. Country Gentleman's Vade-mecum (1699). (Nares.)

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  1. from French mondifier = Spanish Portuguese mundificar = Italian mondificare, from Late Latin mundificare, cleanse, from Latin mundus, clean, + facere, make.
 

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