absterse
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin abstersus, perfect passive participle of abstergeō (“wipe off, wipe away”); formed from abs- + tergeō (“wipe”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ab‧sterse
- Rhymes: -ɜːs
Verb
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- (transitive, now rare) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
- Dr. Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors.
- “ Nor will we afiirm, that iron ingested, receiveth, in the stomach of the Ostrich, no alteration ; but if any such there be, we suspect this effect rather from some way of corrosion than any of digestion, not any liquid reduction or tendence to chilification by the power of natural heat; but rather some attrition from’ an acid and vitriolous humidity in the stomach, which may absterse and shave the scorious parts thereof.”
- Dr. Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absterse”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) absterse