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Definition of Absterging
1. absterge [v] - See also: absterge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absterging
Literary usage of Absterging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Inquiries and Observations by Benjamin Rush (1805)
"... these parts promoting it when by an absterging medicine they are eased of the
burden or stimulus which oppresses them." " All these acute putrid fevers ..."
2. The Code of Health and Longevity: Or, A Concise View, of the Principles by Sir John Sinclair (1807)
"... not purging at all, or absterging ; but only cooling, and somewhat opening ;
those are approved, which are made of the juices of lettuce, ..."
3. The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence by William S. Hein & Company (1833)
"387 he justly adds, with much novelty of expression, if not of thought, that "
it is the fountain of vice whence the evil flows which requires absterging. ..."
4. A Handbook of uterine therapeutics and of diseases of women by Edward John Tilt (1881)
"... to repeat this surface-contact of the caustic three or four times with the
same precautions, and, at last, after carefully absterging the eschar, ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"Also in purging and absterging medicines, some carry away the fluid humours
violently others draw the more obstinate and viscous. 9. ..."
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