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Definition of Purgations
1. purgation [n] - See also: purgation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purgations
Literary usage of Purgations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... Treiber with the purgations of the rational soul, the purification of the ...
That of Needham is better : " For the purgations of the rational soul ..."
2. Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1887)
"... and purgations which intending combatants had to go through were accompanied
by a course of lessons in the arm they were to wield, and their instructors ..."
3. The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus: The Celebrated Jewish Historian ...by Flavius Josephus, William Whiston by Flavius Josephus, William Whiston (1901)
"... find hat (hey have their natural purgations thrice, nn trials that they are
likely to he fruitful, they then actually marry them. ..."