Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of wiping clean: as, “ablution and abstersion,” Scott, Waverley, xx.
- noun In medicine, a cleansing by substances which remove foulness from about sores, or humors or obstructions from the system.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Baptism, immersion in water, abstersion, purification by water, is of the highest antiquity.
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He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained
Waverley 2004
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The best of all these is the shaggy hat, for it makes a very neat abstersion of the fecal matter.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The best of all these is the shaggy hat, for it makes a very neat abstersion of the fecal matter.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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My ablutions are esteemed the most complete of any mans in the capital, and the mode of my abstersion the most in use.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
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He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained
The Waverley 1877
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He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
madmouth commented on the word abstersion
clean-up
April 26, 2009