Definition of Absterges

1. Verb. (third-person singular of absterge) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Absterges

1. absterge [v] - See also: absterge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Absterges

abstenious
abstention
abstention doctrine
abstention doctrines
abstentionism
abstentionisms
abstentionist
abstentionists
abstentions
abstentious
abstentiousness
absterge
absterged
abstergent
abstergents
absterges (current term)
absterging
absterse
abstersed
absterses
abstersing
abstersion
abstersions
abstersive
abstersiveness
abstersives
abstersory
abstinence-only

Literary usage of Absterges

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

1. Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary by George Canning (1850)
"W here, too, is the great Doctor Kelly f While Sam Solomon's lotion the public absterges, He gives them his gold* as well as his purges; But our frugal ..."

2. The Wonders of Nature and Art: Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most by Thomas Smith (1804)
"... absterges, cures spots and freckles, is good for the eves, removes swellings in the glims, and gives relief in the asthma; ihe black humour Is said to ..."

3. History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal by Henry Phillips (1822)
"... restores lost appetite, and resists the putrefaction and malignity of the humours 4 Ginger absterges and dissipates infractions of the stomach and lungs ..."

4. The New Tory Guide by Paul Methuen (1819)
"Solomon's Lotion the public absterges, He gives them his gold as well as his purges; But our frugal Doctor, this practice to shun, ..."

5. A Guide to the practical study of diseases of the eye: With an Outline of by James Dixon (1866)
"... to an impalpable powder: a little put into the eye every day¡ he says, " gradually absterges and wears off the spot, by its inciding quality. ..."

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