† spurgingn.
Obsolete.
1. The action on the part of ale, wine, etc., of throwing off impurities by fermenting; fermentation. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > [noun] > fermentation
fervence14..
spurgingc1440
working1548
bustle1674
zymurgy1868
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 470/1 Sporgynge, of ale or wyne spumacio.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxx/2 By cause such ale and bierr hathe taken wynde in spurgyng.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 28v That whiche commeth of the spurging, is kept both for brewing and baking.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 39 Flaxe..hath a sclender stalke, not muche vnlike to Sperie.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 153 The liquor of wine gets all the force and strength that it hath by working, spurging, and seething..in the lees while it is Must.
1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xi. 202/1 Such [vessels] as were carried in Drayes..would, by reason of spurging and working in the Carriage, want near a Gallon in every Barrel.
2. Purgation, purging; matter purged out or exuded. rare.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > [noun] > action of excreting
sheddingc1200
flux1377
outputtinga1387
purgationa1387
avoidancea1398
voidance1398
evacuation?1533
spurging1548
emptying1552
vacuation1583
emunction1601
regurgitation1601
vacation1617
excretion1640
egestion1644
weeping1655
elimination1665
despumation1684
excreting1849
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lv Without any dreuelyng or spurgyng in any place of his body.
1609 B. Jonson Masque of Queens in Wks. (1640) 166 The spurgings of a dead~mans eyes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
† spurgingadj.
Obsolete. rare.
1. Fermenting, spuming.
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adjective] > full of or covered with foam or froth
foamyOE
foaminga1400
spumingc1400
frothy?1531
spurging1566
fretting1567
fuming1598
white-mouthed1598
frory1600
yeastya1616
frothed1616
frothing1628
lathering1630
mantling1633
sudding1633
spumeous1635
spewy1743
spooming1818
despumatious1819
yeastinga1821
creaming1825
spumous1854
frothsome1880
lathery1880
bubblesome1946
1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse xxii. f. 43v The Goddesse whome..the frothe of the spurginge waues had nourished.
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iii. f. 38v Saint Vrban makes the pleasant wine, and doth preserue it still, And spourging, vessels all with Must continually doth fill.
2. Purging; purgative.
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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
a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) v. i You do not remember How I behav'd my self upon the eating of Spurging Comfects.
a1652 R. Brome Court Begger iv. ii. sig. R3, in Five New Playes (1653) The Devill fright him next for a spurging skitterbrooke.
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