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Definition of Absterges
1. absterge [v] - See also: absterge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absterges
Literary usage of Absterges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary by George Canning (1850)
"W here, too, is the great Doctor Kelly f While Sam Solomon's lotion the public
absterges, He gives them his gold* as well as his purges; But our frugal ..."
2. The Wonders of Nature and Art: Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most by Thomas Smith (1804)
"... absterges, cures spots and freckles, is good for the eves, removes swellings
in the glims, and gives relief in the asthma; ihe black humour Is said to ..."
3. History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal by Henry Phillips (1822)
"... restores lost appetite, and resists the putrefaction and malignity of the
humours 4 Ginger absterges and dissipates infractions of the stomach and lungs ..."
4. The New Tory Guide by Paul Methuen (1819)
"Solomon's Lotion the public absterges, He gives them his gold as well as his
purges; But our frugal Doctor, this practice to shun, ..."
5. A Guide to the practical study of diseases of the eye: With an Outline of by James Dixon (1866)
"... to an impalpable powder: a little put into the eye every day¡ he says, "
gradually absterges and wears off the spot, by its inciding quality. ..."
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