depuration
Definitions
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- noun The removal of impurities, especially from bodily fluids; purification, cleansing.
Examples
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Or, should depuration not take place, but congestion accumulate in the brain, it necessarily becomes phlegmatic.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
Note
The word 'depuration' comes from French 'dépuration' or Latin 'deporationem', from 'depurare' ("depurate").