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purging
(encz) | purging,čištění n: Zdeněk Brož |
purging
(encz) | purging,pročišťování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Purging
(gcide) | Purge \Purge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Purging.] [F. purger, L. purgare; purus pure + agere to
make, to do. See Pure, and Agent.]
1. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying
off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or
superfluous. "Till fire purge all things new." --Milton.
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2. (Med.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic
medicine, or in a similar manner.
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3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
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4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam
pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
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5. To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial
defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
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When that he hath purged you from sin. --Chaucer.
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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. --Ps.
li. 7.
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6. (Law) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime
or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
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7. To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often
followed by away.
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Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. --Ps.
lxxix. 9.
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We 'll join our cares to purge away
Our country's crimes. --Addison.
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Purging
(gcide) | Purging \Pur"ging\, a.
That purges; cleansing.
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Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus
Linum (Linum catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so
called from its use as a cathartic medicine.
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Purging
(gcide) | Purging \Pur"ging\, n. (Med.)
The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially,
diarrhea.
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purging
(wn) | purging
adj 1: serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites" [syn:
purgatorial, purging, purifying]
n 1: an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or
other undesired elements [syn: purge, purging]
2: the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or
charge [syn: purge, purging, purgation] |
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Purging flax
(gcide) | Purging \Pur"ging\, a.
That purges; cleansing.
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Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus
Linum (Linum catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so
called from its use as a cathartic medicine.
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Spurging
(gcide) | Spurging \Spur"ging\ (sp[^u]r"j[i^]ng), n. [See 2d Spurge.]
A purging. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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purging
(wn) | purging
adj 1: serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites" [syn:
purgatorial, purging, purifying]
n 1: an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or
other undesired elements [syn: purge, purging]
2: the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or
charge [syn: purge, purging, purgation] |
purging cassia
(wn) | purging cassia
n 1: deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to
yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is
used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South
America and Australia [syn: golden shower tree,
drumstick tree, purging cassia, pudding pipe tree,
canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistula] |
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