purgingn.

Brit.

/ˈpəːdʒɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpərdʒɪŋ/

Forms: see purge v.¹ and -ing suffix¹; also late Middle English puregeyng, late Middle English purgeyng, 1600s purdging; Scottish pre-1700 purgeing.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: purge v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < purge v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare purgation n., purge n., purgement n. In sense 1b after classical Latin pūrgāmentum purgament n.

a. The action or an act of purifying something; purgation, cleansing (from sin, a contaminant, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > [noun]

purginga1382

expurgationc1420

purgationc1425

undefoilingc1425

purgement1483

sublimating1559

sweetening1591

purgatory1596

purification1597

purge1598

depuration1603

refinement1611

castigation1615

lustrationc1635

purifaction1652

refreshing1719

depurating1762

epuration1800

neatifying1826

vastation1847

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Num. xix. 21 Eche þat toucheþ þe waters of purgynge [L. aquas expiationis] shal be vnclene vnto þe euyn.

a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 351 (MED) It were sumwhat for to speke of þis purging of þe Chirche..it may be purgid in part, and in þis purginge stondiþ mennis mede.

a1500 Twelve Profits of Tribulation (Rawl.) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 394 The secund purgynge ys of metal, as gold be þe fire & iron be the fyle. The thrid purgynge is of trees, as cuttynge of vynes and voydynge of onfrutfull branches.

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. e5 Wherfore shuld their invencyon of purgatorye serve but to be a place of purginge, punishment, and penaunce.

1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. v. f. 90^v Therupon thei fel to weaping and purging of them selues.

1629 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1901) 2nd Ser. III. 4 The..purging of the land frome suche a mischaunt persoun.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lx Any other Engine for the purging the River of Thames from Obstructions.

1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 165 The purging and washing of Yarn is now pretty well understood.

1770 W. Watkins Short & Affectionate Addr. Rom. Catholicks Ireland 57 The Doctrine of Purgatory is..often ruinous to the Souls of many, who in Expectation of this Purging from Sin..live here more careless.

1867 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 I. viii. 276 Purging of the list of saints.

1916 G. Eyre-Todd Angel of Robert Burns i. 4 The sins o' the people must be purged..I question, though, if you and your brethren are just the folk to do the purging.

1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 May 46/2 American Indians..used to do..purgings and healings and prayers in a sacred lodge.

†b. concrete. That which is washed away, or removed as refuse. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirt removed in cleaning

washingsc1330

purginga1398

scouring1588

purgament1597

cleansing1608

fullage1611

sordes1640

scuda1642

offscouring1655

offage1727

outscourings1828

cleaning1855

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 248^v Siliqua is þe codde of alle maner codware, and purgynge [L. purgamentum] wiþ þe whiche swyne ben y-fedde.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie vi, in Annales 271 It lay as nought worth, like other purgings of the sea.

c. The action or an act of removing people regarded as undesirable from an organization, esp. a political party.Esp. in early use with reference to Pride's Purge (see purge n. 3b).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > removal of political opponents

purging1647

purge1893

1647 Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer No. 218. 598 A Debate was had concerning the purging of the House, that those persons might be removed from it, who had adhered formerly to the King.

a1666 E. Ludlow Voyce from Watch Tower (1978) v. 199 He was one of those who [in 1648]..joyned with Comissary Generall Ireton and others of the army for the purdging of the Parliament.

1845 T. W. Redhead tr. A. Thiers Hist. Fr. Revol. xxii. 272/2 That incessant appeal..provoked the outrage known under the name of the purging of parliament, an outrage of which Pride, who from a butcher had become a colonel, was the author and chief perpetrator.

1917 Times 2 Jan. 7/1 There were almost daily purgings by the expulsion of State and Federal Labour members..associated..with the conscription campaign.

1940 E. Hemingway For whom Bell Tolls xl. 398 Here it reports the purging of more of thy famous Russians.

1974 J. White tr. N. Poulantzas Fascism & Dictatorship vii. v. 338 The judiciary..suffered least from purging after national socialism came to power.

1991 World Monitor Apr. 40/3 As a result of the uprising, the government last fall announced the purging of some local Communist Party and government officials.

d. The action or process of flushing an apparatus with a gas or liquid in order to remove existing contents, prevent contamination, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [noun] > by flushing with another liquid

purging1948

purge1957

1948 Analytica Chimica Acta 2 510 When the sample intake is increased to 200 mg, the combustion and purging are extended over a longer period.

1973 J. G. Tweeddale Materials Technol. II. ii. 24 Various methods of removal can be used, such as..by purging, in which an insoluble carrier-gas is bubbled through the liquid to create large surface areas at which the hydrogen can gather and be carried away.

2000 Jrnl. N. Amer. Benthological Soc. 19 237 Flasks were..purged for 3 min with argon..Flasks were shaken gently during the purging.

2. Medicine. Elimination or expulsion of waste or harmful material, ingested food, etc., from the body; spec. the act of emptying the bowels or the administration or use of laxatives to induce this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > purging

purgationa1387

purginga1400

minoration1590

purgament1650

laxating1652

fluxation1656

catharm1678

scouring1682

catharsis1803

syrmaism1842

washing-out1890

lavage1895

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 195 (MED) Þe blac morphe is curid wiþ ofte purging [L. purgando] of malancoli.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 117 (MED) The secounde is fulfilled..sometyme in purgynge [L. purgando] by þe vryne.

a1500 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Wellcome) f. 32^v (MED) In þe gret and grettest obtolmya, good is blode lettyng of the hede veyne..and purgyng of hot humours.

1647 A. Cowley Counsel in Mistress i Cordials of Pity give me now, For I too weak for Purgings grow.

1683 J. Locke 27 Mar. in J. Locke & E. Clarke Corr. (1927) 94 After every purging let him take at night going to bed three spoonfuls.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch (1710) xxi. 154 To keep the Body loose is very beneficial, but much Purging..is very injurious.

1771 J. Banks Jrnl. 17 Jan. (1962) II. 242 Nor was I the only sick man, many began to complain of purgings.

1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 225 Vomiting and frequent purging of a bilious humour.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 908 Recurrent purging and vomiting.

1930 D. L. Sayers Strong Poison ii. 30 But you may think it likely that all such traces would be removed from the body by the vomiting and purging which took place.

1973 J. G. Farrell Siege of Krishnapur xxv. 277 The disease is, however, attended by secondary symptoms, the well known purging and vomiting which, because they are so dramatic, have frequently been taken by the inept as indicating the primary seat of the infection.

1988 M. Batchelor Forty Plus (BNC) 123 Some anorexics combine fasting with occasional binges, followed by self-induced purging or vomiting.

†3. = purgation n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > clearing oneself > [noun]

purgationa1325

purge1447

purginga1731

a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 118 in Compl. Wks. (1731) They are..obliged to swear themselves innocent, or endure the Shame and Punishment ordained for the Crime of Fornication. This they call Purging.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as purging commission, purging day, †purging faculty, purging quality, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun]

purgationa1387

shitting1386

officec1395

outpassinga1398

subduction?a1425

easementa1438

cuckingc1440

siegea1475

evacuation?1533

stool1541

egestion1547

dunging1558

purging1579

stooling1599

cackc1600

motion1602

dejection1605

excretion1640

exclusion1646

purgament1650

exoneration1651

disenteration1654

orduring1654

crapping1673

passage1681

seat1697

opening1797

defecation1825

excreting1849

poopc1890

movement1891

job1899

shit?1927

crap1937

dump1942

soiling1943

gick1959

jobbie1981

pooh1981

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 34 The feast of Lupercalia..is celebrated on the vnfortunate dayes of the moneth of Februarie, which are called the purging dayes [Fr. es iours malencontreux du mois de Feburier, lequel nom..signifie autant comme purificatif; Gk. ἐν ἡμέραις..τοῦ Φεβρουαρίου μηνός, ὅν καθάρσιον ἄν τις ἑρμηνεύσειε].

1602 R. Marbecke Def. Tabacco 65 It may be your opinion is also, that Tabacco increaseth melancholie, and worketh this great daunger and offence, by his purging facultie.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 210 It is supposed it tooke the name Danewort from the strong purging quality it hath, many times bringing them that use it unto a fluxe.

1851 Times 5 June 3/1 The Church of Scotland occasionally issued what were called purging commissions.

1896 Jrnl. Bath & West Soc. 6 207 The herbage possesses the peculiar purging quality known as ‘teart’.

1996 J. Petropoulos Art as Politics in Third Reich (1999) 56 He directed Adolf Ziegler to include representatives from different branches of the bureaucracy on the purging commission.

2003 Revolution (Nexis) 1 July 54 Monday is a large purging day. People tend to clear out their inboxes at the beginning of the week.

C2.

purging-cock n. now rare = purge cock n. at purge v.¹ Compounds.

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1836/1 Purging-cock, the mud-cock or discharge-valve of a steam-boiler.

1909 Horseless Age 3 Feb. 172/2 It is fitted with a purging cock, so that the whole system may be drained, the pump being at the lowest point of the system.

† purging hook n. Obsolete rare = pruning hook n.

ΚΠ

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xiii. 20 Eche oon scharpe his shar & diggyng iren & ax & purgyng hooc [L. sarculum].

purging place n. (a) †a part of the body where unhealthy or excess bodily humours are expelled (obsolete); (b) †a lavatory (obsolete); (c) purgatory (now rare).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > purgatory

purgatory?c1225

purging place?c1425

the land of whipperginnie1594

repository1638

middle world1691

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun]

gongOE

privy?c1225

room-housec1275

chamber foreignc1300

wardrobea1325

privy chamberc1325

foreignc1390

siegec1400

stool1410

jakes1432

house of easementa1438

kocayc1440

siege-hole1440

siege-house1440

privy house1463

withdraught1493

draught1530

shield1535

bench-hole1542

common house1542

stool1542

jakes house1547

boggard1552

house of office?1560

purging place1577

little house1579

issue1588

Ajax1596

draught-house1597

private1600

necessary house1612

vault1617

longhouse1622

latrine1623

necessary1633

commonsa1641

gingerbread officea1643

boghouse1644

cloaca1645

passage-house1646

retreat1653

shithouse1659

closet of ease1662

garderobe1680

backside1704

office1727

bog?1731

house of ease1734

cuz-john1735

easing-chair1771

backhouse1800

outhouse1819

netty1825

petty1848

seat of ease1850

closet1869

bathroom1883

crapper1927

lat1927

shouse1941

biffy1942

shitholec1947

toot1965

shitter1967

woodshed1974

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 154 An aposteme gendred in þe purgynge places [L. in tribus emunctoriis], þat is to say, of þe brayne vnder þe eres, of þe herte vnder þe arme holes, of þe lyuer in the schares.

1577 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Chron. 29 He buylt in all streetes in Rome publique purging places [Sp. latrinas publicas].

1603 E. Melville Godlie Dreame 262 Is this, said I, the Papists purging place?

1647 H. Jones St. Patricks Purgatory i. 18 Irelands Apostle, and welwishing Teacher This is, to whom those Purging places were by grace of God revealed.

1781 Dispassionate Enq. Cause Late Riots London 95 Take off or shorten the pains of those souls, who are in this purging place of torment.

1912 W. Edgerly Future Seeing & Destiny cmli. 818 The belief in purgatory as the purging place intermediate between this world and the next, was created by the schemes of crafty men.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

purgingadj.

Brit.

/ˈpəːdʒɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpərdʒɪŋ/

Forms: see purge v.¹ and -ing suffix²; also late Middle English purgeande (northern).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: purge v.¹, -ing suffix².

Etymology: < purge v.¹ + -ing suffix². Compare earlier purgative adj., purgatory adj. Compare also earlier purging n.

1. Esp. of fire: that purges; cleansing, purifying.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > [adjective]

purginga1425

purificativea1492

clarifying1630

lustrating1653

laving1671

sweetening1707

depurating1762

defecatory1847

depuring1873

lustrant1895

a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 1 Cor. iii. 13 (MED) In igne reuelabitur..he schal be schewyd in þe fyre purgeande.

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. iv. 164 Some soules, I trowe, ben exercised by a purgynge mekenesse [L. purgatoria clementia].

1558 T. Phaer Eneidos vi. 780 Tyll synnes away be washt, or clensyd clere with purging fyer.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. ii. 157 That punishment and purging sacrifices of incest should be sought.

1653 A. Collins Divine Songs & Meditacions 31 The Face Of Christ, that Sunne divine, which hath a purging power Corruption to devour.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 603 The Peace profan'd our rightful Arms requires: Cleanse the polluted Place with purging Fires.

1728 M. Earbery tr. T. Burnet Of State of Dead II. ix. 52 Lustrating or purging Fires.

1783 J. Wesley Let. 25 Feb. (1931) VII. 168 The Popish purgatory, wherein wicked men are supposed to be tormented in purging fire till they are sufficiently purified.

1816 M. Holford Margaret of Anjou 103 Rather mid the purging fire My soul would wait for thee than they should rudely fare!

1882 F. W. H. Myers Renewal of Youth 264 The purging sacrament of pain.

1958 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 106 530 Market laggards, who would otherwise be..eliminated by the purging process of competition.

1991 Wicazo Sa Rev. Fall 62 Ideas and stories like these came flooding out in a purging flood of increasingly forceful articulation.

2. = purgative adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative

outrunningeOE

laxativea1398

purgativea1398

openinga1400

abstersive?a1425

purging?c1425

solublec1503

minorative1543

purgy1562

relaxing1562

solutive1564

benedict1576

aperitive1582

scouring1597

apertive1605

dejective1605

relaxative1611

subductory1620

calastic1621

aperient1626

cathartic1639

dejectory1640

relaxant1651

spurginga1652

cathartical1656

anastomotic1657

ecphractic1657

ecphractical1657

rhyptical1657

rhyptic1659

loosening1665

eccathartic1681

fluxing1702

chalastic1704

loosinga1722

hypactic1753

evacuatory1789

evacuant1800

relaxatory1925

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 128 (MED) The secounde intencioun is fulfilled wiþ purgynge medecynes.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 79^v So haue the old autores gyuen vnto diuerse herbes a purgyng vertue.

1696 W. Salmon Family-dict. (ed. 2) 203 Purge with Mecoacan-Ale, or some such-like easie Purging-Ale.

1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Richmond, Surry On the ascent of the hill are the wells of purging mineral water, to which a great deal of good company resort.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxvii. 338 The purging mixture of Epsom salts.

1902 Lancet 24 May 1475/2 The series of oxyanthra-quinones,..to which belong the active constituents of such purging drugs as aloes, cascara, sagrada, rhubarb, and senna.

2003 S. Clavey Fluid Physiol. & Pathol. Chinese Med. (ed. 2) vi. 253 Clinically, 2.4–3 g Shi Zao Wan..will achieve a purging effect; in some patients, though, it can lead to severe and continual diarrhea.

Compounds

In names of fungi, plants, or seeds having purgative properties.

purging agaric n. rare a bracket fungus, Fomitopsis officinalis.

ΚΠ

1854 J. King Amer. Eclectic Dispensatory 183 The Boletus Laricis which grows upon the larch of the old world, is the white agaric, or purging agaric of medical writers.

1971 Ainsworth & Bisby's Dict. Fungi (ed. 6) 350 at Medical Uses of Fungi Fomes officinalis..(Agaricum, the female, white, or purging agaric) was a noted ‘universal remedy’.

† purging broom n. Obsolete rare a shrub of south-west Europe, Cytisus purgans (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > other medicinal trees or shrubs

purging broom1770

1770 R. Weston Universal Botanist I. 113 Genista..spinis terminalibus, ramis teretibus striatis... Purging Broom.

1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 223 S[partium] Purgans. Purging Broom.

purging buckthorn n. the common buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica (family Rhamnaceae), whose berries were formerly used as a purgative (cf. buckthorn n.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > buckthorn or rhamnus bushes and parts

rhamna1425

rhamnus1562

buckthorn1578

hart-thorn1607

purging buckthorn1706

shittim1878

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > buckthorn bush or berry

rhamna1425

rhamnus1562

buckthorn1578

Rhine berry1578

hart-thorn1607

purging thorn1653

purging buckthorn1706

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > trees or shrubs yielding dyes > [noun] > buckthorn bush or berry

rhamna1425

rhamnus1562

buckthorn1578

hart-thorn1607

purging buckthorn1706

1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Cambronéra Cachártica [sic], Buckthorn, or purging Buckthorn.

1792 W. Woodville Med. Bot. II. 312 Rhamnus catharticus. Purging Buckthorn... The fruit or berries of the Shrub..operate briskly by stool, and hence the plant derives the trivial name catharticus.

1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 679 Rhamnus cathartica Linnæus, the Purging buckthorn of Europe, has been widely planted for hedges in the eastern United States.

2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Feb. 6 Purging buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica. Food plant for Brimstone butterflies. Dense and twiggy.

purging cassia n. the golden shower or pudding-pipe tree, Cassia fistula (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)); a drug made from the pulp surrounding the seeds of this plant, used as a laxative.

ΚΠ

1688 J. Ray Historia Plantarum II. xxxi. sect. iii. viii. 1746 Cassia fistula Alexandrina... The ordinary purging Cassia or pudding-pipe-tree.

1797 R. Pearson Pract. Synopsis Materia Alimentaria & Materia Medica I. 188 Cassia. Purging Cassia. The pulp contained in the pods of this tree, operates gently by stool, when taken to the quantity of half an ounce or six drams.

1889 G. S. Boulger Uses of Plants iv. 91 C[assia] Fistula, L., now largely grown in the West Indies, is the mild laxative Purging Cassia.

1963 E. H. Schafer Golden Peaches of Samarkand xi. 189 ‘Indian laburnum’, or ‘golden shower’, or more prosaically ‘purging cassia’,..which has beautiful flowers and bright red seeds in long pods.

purging flax n. a dwarf Eurasian flax, Linum catharticum, with small white flowers, found in dry, esp. calcareous, grassland (also called fairy flax).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > linum or fairy-flax

mill-mountain1633

mountain flax1648

rupturewort1670

purging flax1684

fairy flax1737

mountain flax1841

purge flax1853

fairy lint1859

dwarf-flax1863

linum1867

1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 46 Potions that are easily had for the benefit of the poor... Take of Purging Flax one handful, of the seeds of sweet Fennel ȝij. boyl them in Spring water.

1761 W. Lewis Exper. Hist. Materia Medica 352 Purging Flax or Mill Mountain: a small plant, with little oblong smooth leaves..joined in pairs close to the stalks.

1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xxv. 321 The numerous chalk-loving plants which form these floral carpets include the Milkwort (Polygala), Purging Flax (Linum)..and several Orchids.

1993 BBC Wildlife June 6/4 Commonest in chalk grassland and other dry pastures on lime-rich soils is fairy or purging flax L. catharticum, with tiny white flowers on thread-like stems.

† purging grain n. Obsolete (in full oily purging grain) (the seeds of) sesame, Sesamum orientale.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > sesame plant or seed

sesamec1440

gingellya1544

sesamum1577

sergelim1588

sesamine1607

oily corn1671

purging grain1688

oily-grain1753

vanglo1756

benne1769

sesamus1813

til1840

sim-sim1917

1688 J. Ray Historia Plantarum II. xxiii. sect. ii. iii. 1327 Sesamum... Oily purging Grain.

1753 W. Lewis New Dispensatory 207/1 Sesamum,..its seeds, called oily purging grain.

1791 G. Wallis Motherby's New Med. Dict. (ed. 3) 668/1 Oily purging grain. The sesamum Orientale, Linn. It is an Egyptian plant, the seeds of which afford a great quantity of oil by expression, but hath no right to the title of purging.

purging nut n. any of several plants of the family Euphorbiaceae, or their seeds; esp. physic nut, Jatropha curcas.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > fruit or seed > physic-nut or purging nut

pinyon1577

physic nut1657

purging nut1668

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > fruit or seed > croton seeds

purging nut1668

Molucca grains1837

1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 719 He observes of the Purging-nuts..that they often do work as is related.

1761 W. Lewis Exper. Hist. Materia Medica 468 Ricinus... Purging nut: with oval fruit, and roundish, somewhat triangular, pale brownish seeds.

1836 J. M. Gully tr. F. Magendie Formulary (ed. 2) 151 It appears..that the croton plant is the same which produces the seeds known in commerce as the Indian purging-nut.

1954 E. W. Eckey Veg. Fats & Oils xiv. 584 The oil known as curcas oil comes from the kernel of the nuts known as physic nut, purging nut or Barbadoes nut.

2006 Food Chem. 96 80/1 Jatropha curcas (physic nut or purging nut) is a drought-resistant shrub or tree..which is cultivated in Central and South America.

† purging thorn n. Obsolete = purging buckthorn n.

ΚΠ

1653 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 111/1 Take the Berries of Purging Thorn, gathered in September..bruise them in a stone Mortar and press out the Juice.

1690 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. 227 Rhamnus catharticus... Buckthorn or common purging Thorn.

1789 W. Camden Britannia II. 38/1 Rhamnus catharticus. Buckthorn or Purging Thorn; in woods and hedges: in some places near Harefield, and in the hedges between Uxbridge and Beaconsfield, plentifully.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	purging
释义	purgingn. Brit. /ˈpəːdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpərdʒɪŋ/ Forms: see purge v.¹ and -ing suffix¹; also late Middle English puregeyng, late Middle English purgeyng, 1600s purdging; Scottish pre-1700 purgeing. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: purge v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < purge v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare purgation n., purge n., purgement n. In sense 1b after classical Latin pūrgāmentum purgament n. 1. a. The action or an act of purifying something; purgation, cleansing (from sin, a contaminant, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > [noun] purginga1382 expurgationc1420 purgationc1425 undefoilingc1425 purgement1483 sublimating1559 sweetening1591 purgatory1596 purification1597 purge1598 depuration1603 refinement1611 castigation1615 lustrationc1635 purifaction1652 refreshing1719 depurating1762 epuration1800 neatifying1826 vastation1847 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Num. xix. 21 Eche þat toucheþ þe waters of purgynge [L. aquas expiationis] shal be vnclene vnto þe euyn. a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 351 (MED) It were sumwhat for to speke of þis purging of þe Chirche..it may be purgid in part, and in þis purginge stondiþ mennis mede. a1500 Twelve Profits of Tribulation (Rawl.) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 394 The secund purgynge ys of metal, as gold be þe fire & iron be the fyle. The thrid purgynge is of trees, as cuttynge of vynes and voydynge of onfrutfull branches. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. e5 Wherfore shuld their invencyon of purgatorye serve but to be a place of purginge, punishment, and penaunce. 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. v. f. 90^v Therupon thei fel to weaping and purging of them selues. 1629 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1901) 2nd Ser. III. 4 The..purging of the land frome suche a mischaunt persoun. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lx Any other Engine for the purging the River of Thames from Obstructions. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 165 The purging and washing of Yarn is now pretty well understood. 1770 W. Watkins Short & Affectionate Addr. Rom. Catholicks Ireland 57 The Doctrine of Purgatory is..often ruinous to the Souls of many, who in Expectation of this Purging from Sin..live here more careless. 1867 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 I. viii. 276 Purging of the list of saints. 1916 G. Eyre-Todd Angel of Robert Burns i. 4 The sins o' the people must be purged..I question, though, if you and your brethren are just the folk to do the purging. 1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 May 46/2 American Indians..used to do..purgings and healings and prayers in a sacred lodge. †b. concrete. That which is washed away, or removed as refuse. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirt removed in cleaning washingsc1330 purginga1398 scouring1588 purgament1597 cleansing1608 fullage1611 sordes1640 scuda1642 offscouring1655 offage1727 outscourings1828 cleaning1855 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 248^v Siliqua is þe codde of alle maner codware, and purgynge [L. purgamentum] wiþ þe whiche swyne ben y-fedde. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie vi, in Annales 271 It lay as nought worth, like other purgings of the sea. c. The action or an act of removing people regarded as undesirable from an organization, esp. a political party.Esp. in early use with reference to Pride's Purge (see purge n. 3b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > removal of political opponents purging1647 purge1893 1647 Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer No. 218. 598 A Debate was had concerning the purging of the House, that those persons might be removed from it, who had adhered formerly to the King. a1666 E. Ludlow Voyce from Watch Tower (1978) v. 199 He was one of those who [in 1648]..joyned with Comissary Generall Ireton and others of the army for the purdging of the Parliament. 1845 T. W. Redhead tr. A. Thiers Hist. Fr. Revol. xxii. 272/2 That incessant appeal..provoked the outrage known under the name of the purging of parliament, an outrage of which Pride, who from a butcher had become a colonel, was the author and chief perpetrator. 1917 Times 2 Jan. 7/1 There were almost daily purgings by the expulsion of State and Federal Labour members..associated..with the conscription campaign. 1940 E. Hemingway For whom Bell Tolls xl. 398 Here it reports the purging of more of thy famous Russians. 1974 J. White tr. N. Poulantzas Fascism & Dictatorship vii. v. 338 The judiciary..suffered least from purging after national socialism came to power. 1991 World Monitor Apr. 40/3 As a result of the uprising, the government last fall announced the purging of some local Communist Party and government officials. d. The action or process of flushing an apparatus with a gas or liquid in order to remove existing contents, prevent contamination, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [noun] > by flushing with another liquid purging1948 purge1957 1948 Analytica Chimica Acta 2 510 When the sample intake is increased to 200 mg, the combustion and purging are extended over a longer period. 1973 J. G. Tweeddale Materials Technol. II. ii. 24 Various methods of removal can be used, such as..by purging, in which an insoluble carrier-gas is bubbled through the liquid to create large surface areas at which the hydrogen can gather and be carried away. 2000 Jrnl. N. Amer. Benthological Soc. 19 237 Flasks were..purged for 3 min with argon..Flasks were shaken gently during the purging. 2. Medicine. Elimination or expulsion of waste or harmful material, ingested food, etc., from the body; spec. the act of emptying the bowels or the administration or use of laxatives to induce this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > purging purgationa1387 purginga1400 minoration1590 purgament1650 laxating1652 fluxation1656 catharm1678 scouring1682 catharsis1803 syrmaism1842 washing-out1890 lavage1895 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 195 (MED) Þe blac morphe is curid wiþ ofte purging [L. purgando] of malancoli. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 117 (MED) The secounde is fulfilled..sometyme in purgynge [L. purgando] by þe vryne. a1500 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Wellcome) f. 32^v (MED) In þe gret and grettest obtolmya, good is blode lettyng of the hede veyne..and purgyng of hot humours. 1647 A. Cowley Counsel in Mistress i Cordials of Pity give me now, For I too weak for Purgings grow. 1683 J. Locke 27 Mar. in J. Locke & E. Clarke Corr. (1927) 94 After every purging let him take at night going to bed three spoonfuls. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch (1710) xxi. 154 To keep the Body loose is very beneficial, but much Purging..is very injurious. 1771 J. Banks Jrnl. 17 Jan. (1962) II. 242 Nor was I the only sick man, many began to complain of purgings. 1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 225 Vomiting and frequent purging of a bilious humour. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 908 Recurrent purging and vomiting. 1930 D. L. Sayers Strong Poison ii. 30 But you may think it likely that all such traces would be removed from the body by the vomiting and purging which took place. 1973 J. G. Farrell Siege of Krishnapur xxv. 277 The disease is, however, attended by secondary symptoms, the well known purging and vomiting which, because they are so dramatic, have frequently been taken by the inept as indicating the primary seat of the infection. 1988 M. Batchelor Forty Plus (BNC) 123 Some anorexics combine fasting with occasional binges, followed by self-induced purging or vomiting. †3. = purgation n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > clearing oneself > [noun] purgationa1325 purge1447 purginga1731 a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 118 in Compl. Wks. (1731) They are..obliged to swear themselves innocent, or endure the Shame and Punishment ordained for the Crime of Fornication. This they call Purging. Compounds C1. General attributive, as purging commission, purging day, †purging faculty, purging quality, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun] purgationa1387 shitting1386 officec1395 outpassinga1398 subduction?a1425 easementa1438 cuckingc1440 siegea1475 evacuation?1533 stool1541 egestion1547 dunging1558 purging1579 stooling1599 cackc1600 motion1602 dejection1605 excretion1640 exclusion1646 purgament1650 exoneration1651 disenteration1654 orduring1654 crapping1673 passage1681 seat1697 opening1797 defecation1825 excreting1849 poopc1890 movement1891 job1899 shit?1927 crap1937 dump1942 soiling1943 gick1959 jobbie1981 pooh1981 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 34 The feast of Lupercalia..is celebrated on the vnfortunate dayes of the moneth of Februarie, which are called the purging dayes [Fr. es iours malencontreux du mois de Feburier, lequel nom..signifie autant comme purificatif; Gk. ἐν ἡμέραις..τοῦ Φεβρουαρίου μηνός, ὅν καθάρσιον ἄν τις ἑρμηνεύσειε]. 1602 R. Marbecke Def. Tabacco 65 It may be your opinion is also, that Tabacco increaseth melancholie, and worketh this great daunger and offence, by his purging facultie. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 210 It is supposed it tooke the name Danewort from the strong purging quality it hath, many times bringing them that use it unto a fluxe. 1851 Times 5 June 3/1 The Church of Scotland occasionally issued what were called purging commissions. 1896 Jrnl. Bath & West Soc. 6 207 The herbage possesses the peculiar purging quality known as ‘teart’. 1996 J. Petropoulos Art as Politics in Third Reich (1999) 56 He directed Adolf Ziegler to include representatives from different branches of the bureaucracy on the purging commission. 2003 Revolution (Nexis) 1 July 54 Monday is a large purging day. People tend to clear out their inboxes at the beginning of the week. C2. purging-cock n. now rare = purge cock n. at purge v.¹ Compounds. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1836/1 Purging-cock, the mud-cock or discharge-valve of a steam-boiler. 1909 Horseless Age 3 Feb. 172/2 It is fitted with a purging cock, so that the whole system may be drained, the pump being at the lowest point of the system. † purging hook n. Obsolete rare = pruning hook n. ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xiii. 20 Eche oon scharpe his shar & diggyng iren & ax & purgyng hooc [L. sarculum]. purging place n. (a) †a part of the body where unhealthy or excess bodily humours are expelled (obsolete); (b) †a lavatory (obsolete); (c) purgatory (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > purgatory purgatory?c1225 purging place?c1425 the land of whipperginnie1594 repository1638 middle world1691 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] gongOE privy?c1225 room-housec1275 chamber foreignc1300 wardrobea1325 privy chamberc1325 foreignc1390 siegec1400 stool1410 jakes1432 house of easementa1438 kocayc1440 siege-hole1440 siege-house1440 privy house1463 withdraught1493 draught1530 shield1535 bench-hole1542 common house1542 stool1542 jakes house1547 boggard1552 house of office?1560 purging place1577 little house1579 issue1588 Ajax1596 draught-house1597 private1600 necessary house1612 vault1617 longhouse1622 latrine1623 necessary1633 commonsa1641 gingerbread officea1643 boghouse1644 cloaca1645 passage-house1646 retreat1653 shithouse1659 closet of ease1662 garderobe1680 backside1704 office1727 bog?1731 house of ease1734 cuz-john1735 easing-chair1771 backhouse1800 outhouse1819 netty1825 petty1848 seat of ease1850 closet1869 bathroom1883 crapper1927 lat1927 shouse1941 biffy1942 shitholec1947 toot1965 shitter1967 woodshed1974 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 154 An aposteme gendred in þe purgynge places [L. in tribus emunctoriis], þat is to say, of þe brayne vnder þe eres, of þe herte vnder þe arme holes, of þe lyuer in the schares. 1577 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Chron. 29 He buylt in all streetes in Rome publique purging places [Sp. latrinas publicas]. 1603 E. Melville Godlie Dreame 262 Is this, said I, the Papists purging place? 1647 H. Jones St. Patricks Purgatory i. 18 Irelands Apostle, and welwishing Teacher This is, to whom those Purging places were by grace of God revealed. 1781 Dispassionate Enq. Cause Late Riots London 95 Take off or shorten the pains of those souls, who are in this purging place of torment. 1912 W. Edgerly Future Seeing & Destiny cmli. 818 The belief in purgatory as the purging place intermediate between this world and the next, was created by the schemes of crafty men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). purgingadj. Brit. /ˈpəːdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpərdʒɪŋ/ Forms: see purge v.¹ and -ing suffix²; also late Middle English purgeande (northern). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: purge v.¹, -ing suffix². Etymology: < purge v.¹ + -ing suffix². Compare earlier purgative adj., purgatory adj. Compare also earlier purging n. 1. Esp. of fire: that purges; cleansing, purifying. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > [adjective] purginga1425 purificativea1492 clarifying1630 lustrating1653 laving1671 sweetening1707 depurating1762 defecatory1847 depuring1873 lustrant1895 a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 1 Cor. iii. 13 (MED) In igne reuelabitur..he schal be schewyd in þe fyre purgeande. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. iv. 164 Some soules, I trowe, ben exercised by a purgynge mekenesse [L. purgatoria clementia]. 1558 T. Phaer Eneidos vi. 780 Tyll synnes away be washt, or clensyd clere with purging fyer. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. ii. 157 That punishment and purging sacrifices of incest should be sought. 1653 A. Collins Divine Songs & Meditacions 31 The Face Of Christ, that Sunne divine, which hath a purging power Corruption to devour. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 603 The Peace profan'd our rightful Arms requires: Cleanse the polluted Place with purging Fires. 1728 M. Earbery tr. T. Burnet Of State of Dead II. ix. 52 Lustrating or purging Fires. 1783 J. Wesley Let. 25 Feb. (1931) VII. 168 The Popish purgatory, wherein wicked men are supposed to be tormented in purging fire till they are sufficiently purified. 1816 M. Holford Margaret of Anjou 103 Rather mid the purging fire My soul would wait for thee than they should rudely fare! 1882 F. W. H. Myers Renewal of Youth 264 The purging sacrament of pain. 1958 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 106 530 Market laggards, who would otherwise be..eliminated by the purging process of competition. 1991 Wicazo Sa Rev. Fall 62 Ideas and stories like these came flooding out in a purging flood of increasingly forceful articulation. 2. = purgative adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative outrunningeOE laxativea1398 purgativea1398 openinga1400 abstersive?a1425 purging?c1425 solublec1503 minorative1543 purgy1562 relaxing1562 solutive1564 benedict1576 aperitive1582 scouring1597 apertive1605 dejective1605 relaxative1611 subductory1620 calastic1621 aperient1626 cathartic1639 dejectory1640 relaxant1651 spurginga1652 cathartical1656 anastomotic1657 ecphractic1657 ecphractical1657 rhyptical1657 rhyptic1659 loosening1665 eccathartic1681 fluxing1702 chalastic1704 loosinga1722 hypactic1753 evacuatory1789 evacuant1800 relaxatory1925 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 128 (MED) The secounde intencioun is fulfilled wiþ purgynge medecynes. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 79^v So haue the old autores gyuen vnto diuerse herbes a purgyng vertue. 1696 W. Salmon Family-dict. (ed. 2) 203 Purge with Mecoacan-Ale, or some such-like easie Purging-Ale. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Richmond, Surry On the ascent of the hill are the wells of purging mineral water, to which a great deal of good company resort. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxvii. 338 The purging mixture of Epsom salts. 1902 Lancet 24 May 1475/2 The series of oxyanthra-quinones,..to which belong the active constituents of such purging drugs as aloes, cascara, sagrada, rhubarb, and senna. 2003 S. Clavey Fluid Physiol. & Pathol. Chinese Med. (ed. 2) vi. 253 Clinically, 2.4–3 g Shi Zao Wan..will achieve a purging effect; in some patients, though, it can lead to severe and continual diarrhea. Compounds In names of fungi, plants, or seeds having purgative properties. purging agaric n. rare a bracket fungus, Fomitopsis officinalis. ΚΠ 1854 J. King Amer. Eclectic Dispensatory 183 The Boletus Laricis which grows upon the larch of the old world, is the white agaric, or purging agaric of medical writers. 1971 Ainsworth & Bisby's Dict. Fungi (ed. 6) 350 at Medical Uses of Fungi Fomes officinalis..(Agaricum, the female, white, or purging agaric) was a noted ‘universal remedy’. † purging broom n. Obsolete rare a shrub of south-west Europe, Cytisus purgans (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > other medicinal trees or shrubs purging broom1770 1770 R. Weston Universal Botanist I. 113 Genista..spinis terminalibus, ramis teretibus striatis... Purging Broom. 1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 223 S[partium] Purgans. Purging Broom. purging buckthorn n. the common buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica (family Rhamnaceae), whose berries were formerly used as a purgative (cf. buckthorn n.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > buckthorn or rhamnus bushes and parts rhamna1425 rhamnus1562 buckthorn1578 hart-thorn1607 purging buckthorn1706 shittim1878 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > buckthorn bush or berry rhamna1425 rhamnus1562 buckthorn1578 Rhine berry1578 hart-thorn1607 purging thorn1653 purging buckthorn1706 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > trees or shrubs yielding dyes > [noun] > buckthorn bush or berry rhamna1425 rhamnus1562 buckthorn1578 hart-thorn1607 purging buckthorn1706 1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Cambronéra Cachártica [sic], Buckthorn, or purging Buckthorn. 1792 W. Woodville Med. Bot. II. 312 Rhamnus catharticus. Purging Buckthorn... The fruit or berries of the Shrub..operate briskly by stool, and hence the plant derives the trivial name catharticus. 1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 679 Rhamnus cathartica Linnæus, the Purging buckthorn of Europe, has been widely planted for hedges in the eastern United States. 2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Feb. 6 Purging buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica. Food plant for Brimstone butterflies. Dense and twiggy. purging cassia n. the golden shower or pudding-pipe tree, Cassia fistula (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)); a drug made from the pulp surrounding the seeds of this plant, used as a laxative. ΚΠ 1688 J. Ray Historia Plantarum II. xxxi. sect. iii. viii. 1746 Cassia fistula Alexandrina... The ordinary purging Cassia or pudding-pipe-tree. 1797 R. Pearson Pract. Synopsis Materia Alimentaria & Materia Medica I. 188 Cassia. Purging Cassia. The pulp contained in the pods of this tree, operates gently by stool, when taken to the quantity of half an ounce or six drams. 1889 G. S. Boulger Uses of Plants iv. 91 C[assia] Fistula, L., now largely grown in the West Indies, is the mild laxative Purging Cassia. 1963 E. H. Schafer Golden Peaches of Samarkand xi. 189 ‘Indian laburnum’, or ‘golden shower’, or more prosaically ‘purging cassia’,..which has beautiful flowers and bright red seeds in long pods. purging flax n. a dwarf Eurasian flax, Linum catharticum, with small white flowers, found in dry, esp. calcareous, grassland (also called fairy flax). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > linum or fairy-flax mill-mountain1633 mountain flax1648 rupturewort1670 purging flax1684 fairy flax1737 mountain flax1841 purge flax1853 fairy lint1859 dwarf-flax1863 linum1867 1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 46 Potions that are easily had for the benefit of the poor... Take of Purging Flax one handful, of the seeds of sweet Fennel ȝij. boyl them in Spring water. 1761 W. Lewis Exper. Hist. Materia Medica 352 Purging Flax or Mill Mountain: a small plant, with little oblong smooth leaves..joined in pairs close to the stalks. 1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xxv. 321 The numerous chalk-loving plants which form these floral carpets include the Milkwort (Polygala), Purging Flax (Linum)..and several Orchids. 1993 BBC Wildlife June 6/4 Commonest in chalk grassland and other dry pastures on lime-rich soils is fairy or purging flax L. catharticum, with tiny white flowers on thread-like stems. † purging grain n. Obsolete (in full oily purging grain) (the seeds of) sesame, Sesamum orientale. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > sesame plant or seed sesamec1440 gingellya1544 sesamum1577 sergelim1588 sesamine1607 oily corn1671 purging grain1688 oily-grain1753 vanglo1756 benne1769 sesamus1813 til1840 sim-sim1917 1688 J. Ray Historia Plantarum II. xxiii. sect. ii. iii. 1327 Sesamum... Oily purging Grain. 1753 W. Lewis New Dispensatory 207/1 Sesamum,..its seeds, called oily purging grain. 1791 G. Wallis Motherby's New Med. Dict. (ed. 3) 668/1 Oily purging grain. The sesamum Orientale, Linn. It is an Egyptian plant, the seeds of which afford a great quantity of oil by expression, but hath no right to the title of purging. purging nut n. any of several plants of the family Euphorbiaceae, or their seeds; esp. physic nut, Jatropha curcas. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > fruit or seed > physic-nut or purging nut pinyon1577 physic nut1657 purging nut1668 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > fruit or seed > croton seeds purging nut1668 Molucca grains1837 1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 719 He observes of the Purging-nuts..that they often do work as is related. 1761 W. Lewis Exper. Hist. Materia Medica 468 Ricinus... Purging nut: with oval fruit, and roundish, somewhat triangular, pale brownish seeds. 1836 J. M. Gully tr. F. Magendie Formulary (ed. 2) 151 It appears..that the croton plant is the same which produces the seeds known in commerce as the Indian purging-nut. 1954 E. W. Eckey Veg. Fats & Oils xiv. 584 The oil known as curcas oil comes from the kernel of the nuts known as physic nut, purging nut or Barbadoes nut. 2006 Food Chem. 96 80/1 Jatropha curcas (physic nut or purging nut) is a drought-resistant shrub or tree..which is cultivated in Central and South America. † purging thorn n. Obsolete = purging buckthorn n. ΚΠ 1653 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 111/1 Take the Berries of Purging Thorn, gathered in September..bruise them in a stone Mortar and press out the Juice. 1690 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. 227 Rhamnus catharticus... Buckthorn or common purging Thorn. 1789 W. Camden Britannia II. 38/1 Rhamnus catharticus. Buckthorn or Purging Thorn; in woods and hedges: in some places near Harefield, and in the hedges between Uxbridge and Beaconsfield, plentifully. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382adj.a1425
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