absterge

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See also: abstergé

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French absterger or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin abstergēre, present active infinitive of abstergeō (“wipe off or away”); formed from abs- + tergeō (“to wipe off”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ab‧sterge
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

Verb

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  1. (transitive, archaic, now rare) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away. [First attested in the early 16th century.][1]
    Synonyms: cleanse, purge

References

  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absterge”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) abstergē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of abstergeō

Spanish

Verb

absterge

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of absterger.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of absterger.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of absterger.
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