depuration

Definitions

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  • noun The removal of impurities, especially from bodily fluids; purification, cleansing.

Examples

  • Or, should depuration not take place, but congestion accumulate in the brain, it necessarily becomes phlegmatic.

    On The Sacred Disease

  • According to one authority, “The process of depuration, in which shellfish are placed in sterile water for 48-72 hours to allow them to cleanse themselves, is effective against bacteria but not viruses.”

    HOME COMFORTS

  • It would have been still enfolded in the general depuration of the universe; and that arrogant being who calls himself Man, dissolved and scattered among the molecules of matter, would perhaps have remained for all time hidden in the number of mere possibilities.

    Diderot and the Encyclopaedists

  • The depuration of gold may be performed many ways, and the proofs of its purity given by various methods: I was gratified well enough upon the whole however, in watching the neatness of their process, in weighing the gold, &c. and keeping it more free from alloy than any other coin of any other state: -- a zecchine will bend between your fingers from the malleability of the metal -- we may try in vain at a guinea, or louis d'or.

    Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I

Note

The word 'depuration' comes from French 'dépuration' or Latin 'deporationem', from 'depurare' ("depurate").