Definition of Abluted

1. Verb. (past of ablute) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abluted

1. washed clean [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abluted

ablings
ablins
ablism
abloom
ablow
ablude
abluded
abludes
abluding
abluent
abluents
ablukast
abluminal
ablush
ablute
abluted (current term)
ablutes
abluting
ablution
ablutionary
ablutions
ablutomania
ablutomanias
ablutophiliac
abluvion
ably
abmho
abmhos
abmigration

Literary usage of Abluted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"Billy abluted before breakfast, and said I was a dirty dog, for, you see, I always nb- lute after breakfast. But I didn't mind that, for people will differ, ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1847)
"To render the operation less difficult, by reason of unavoidable hemorrhage, the wounded surface was frequently abluted by injecting cold water upon it ..."

3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... &c.; abluted, for washed himself, herself, or itself, as the case may be; sporn, for spared; ..."

4. The Island of Cuba by Alexander von Humboldt, John S. Thrasher (1856)
"Their persons are never abluted save in crossing a river, or being exposed to a heavy shower of rain."—Page 103. "Among the lower classes, great errors ..."

5. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1872)
"As the bandages were found stained with blood, the dressings were removed and the limb abluted with ..."

6. Port Arthur, Three Months with the Besiegers: A Diurnal of Occurrents by Frederic Villiers (1905)
"... lifts up his hands and then his chin, and slowly works his head round, as if it were on a pivot, to show me, as Barry says, that he has ' abluted. ..."

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