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Definition of Purgation
1. Noun. Purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels.
Generic synonyms: Purge, Purging
Derivative terms: Cathartic, Purge
2. Noun. A ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites.
3. Noun. The act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge.
Specialized synonyms: Purification
Generic synonyms: Clearing
Derivative terms: Purge, Purge, Purge, Purge
Definition of Purgation
1. n. The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.
Definition of Purgation
1. Noun. the act of purging, especially by the use of a purgative ¹
2. Noun. cleansing from sin or guilt ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Purgation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purgation
Literary usage of Purgation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Simon Fraser (1797)
"Lind. to purgation at the ... may bt charged or Ta And purgation was ...
they denied} the judge enjoined them purgation to be performed on- a day appointed, ..."
2. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"And nj°n of Lord (</) Hobart argues, that because many offenders before the
statute di°tjd" con" ing their purgation, and the statute intends that all in ..."
3. A History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans by John Lingard (1827)
"In the purgation by oath, he began purgation |iy calling on God to ... If, on
the contrary, recourse was had to the purgation ord^ pledges were given for ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"3, had ¡n effect suspended purgation, even as to commoners: therefore the
legislature could never mean to introduce and establish purgation as to a peer, ..."
5. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1916)
"A period of purgation set in. At purgation, length the new forms of drama attracted
the literary and poetic aspiration of men who had received at the ..."
6. Old Church Life in Scotland: Lectures on Kirk-session and Presbytery Records by Andrew Edgar (1885)
"THE OLD OATH OF purgation. THE oath of purgation, as given in the form of process
... But there were more ancient oaths of purgation in use in the Church of ..."
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