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Absterse
Ab-sterse′
,Verb.
T.
To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
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absterse
absterse
English
Verb
absterse (third-person singular simple present absterses, present participle abstersing, simple past and past participle abstersed)
- (transitive, now rare) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
Derived terms
References
- ↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 10