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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
madmouth commented on the word abstersion
clean-up
April 26, 2009