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Definition of Lavations
1. lavation [n] - See also: lavation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavations
Literary usage of Lavations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutic Gazette (1916)
"Rogers often recommended quinine lavations. ... If lavations are employed at all,
he likes warm water without salts, as it swells up and destroys ..."
2. Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession by Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Johann Hermann Baas (1889)
"The use of ordinary water as a remedial drink and in the fora <>' (cold and tepid)
lavations and baths for the cure of diseases, ..."
3. Lectures on early Scripture. Genesis by Thomas Francis Crosse (1864)
"But the more important idea was under that system contained in the circumcision,
which accompanied the lavations, and was the principal rite; and that idea ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"What, while thou didst before her altars bow, Thy pure lavations and thy chastity ?
Great Isis, help! for in thy fanes displayed Full many a tablet proves ..."
5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"... large one - - formed the altar, and on this the entire ceremony was performed,
there being no additional agong holding water and medicine for lavations. ..."
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