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Definition of Abluted
1. washed clean [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abluted
Literary usage of Abluted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"Billy abluted before breakfast, and said I was a dirty dog, for, you see, I always
nb- lute after breakfast. But I didn't mind that, for people will differ, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1847)
"To render the operation less difficult, by reason of unavoidable hemorrhage, the
wounded surface was frequently abluted by injecting cold water upon it ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... &c.; abluted, for washed himself, herself, or itself, as the case may be;
sporn, for spared; ..."
4. The Island of Cuba by Alexander von Humboldt, John S. Thrasher (1856)
"Their persons are never abluted save in crossing a river, or being exposed to a
heavy shower of rain."—Page 103. "Among the lower classes, great errors ..."
5. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1872)
"As the bandages were found stained with blood, the dressings were removed and
the limb abluted with ..."
6. Port Arthur, Three Months with the Besiegers: A Diurnal of Occurrents by Frederic Villiers (1905)
"... lifts up his hands and then his chin, and slowly works his head round, as if
it were on a pivot, to show me, as Barry says, that he has ' abluted. ..."
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