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abstersive, a. and n.|æbˈstɜːsɪv|
[a. Fr. abstersif, -ive, f. L. absters- ppl. stem of abstergēre: see absterse and -ive.]
A. adj. Having the quality of purging, cleansing, scouring, or washing away impurities.
1533Elyot Castel of Helth (1541) 27 White betes are also abstersive, and lowseth the bealye. 1603Holland Plutarch's Morals 656 These almonds have an abstersive propertie to bite, to clense and scoure the flesh. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 111 Has an abstersive Virtue to make clean Whatever Nature made in Man obscene. 1725Pope Odyss. xx. 189 And let th' abstersive sponge the board renew. 1845Ford Hdbk. Spain 124 Aqua bendita which the devil is said to hate even worse than monks did the common abstersive fluid.
B. n. [sc. medicine or agent.] Also fig.
1563T. Gale Antid. i. iii. 3 Such medicines as do mundifie, and clense wounds or filthy vlcers, are called abstersiues. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 159 The lowest lees of a canonicall infection livergrown to their sides, which perhaps will never uncling, without the strong abstersive of som heroick magistrat. 1702Petty in Sprat Hist. R. Soc. 295 Abstersives are Fuller's earth, Soap, Linseed-oyl, and Oxgall. 1727Swift Gulliver iii. vi. 216 Administer to each of them..abstersives. |