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Definition of Absterged
1. absterge [v] - See also: absterge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absterged
Literary usage of Absterged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"... none so coarse—thrust into the corners of a weak child's eye with soap that
might have absterged an Ethiop, whitened the hands of Duncan's She-murderer, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"... would not tempt their consciences with a shilling—who would shrink personally
from all contact with the most absterged patriot within the horizon, ..."
3. The Southern Review (1829)
"Bell, in travelling through that country, found the tea savoury; but although
not very scrupulous, objected somewhat to the kettle being absterged with a ..."
4. Essays on His Own Times: Forming a Second Series of The Friend by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1850)
"... from whose errors they absterged themselves, to insult and abuse them as
Apostates and Renegades. From these known and undeniable facts we infer that he ..."
5. A Treatise on the Diseases of Females by William Dewees (1854)
"... as impure, and that they would remain so, until they were well absterged;
hence his pointed directions and observances at this period. ..."
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