Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To throw off impurities; froth; form froth or scum; clarify.
- To throw off in froth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To throw off
impurities inspume ; to work off infoam orscum ; to foam.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The scholar answered, We transfretate the Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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