abstersive
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle French abstersif, from Latin abstersus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əbˈstɝː(ɹ).sɪv/
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈstɝ.sɪv/, /əbˈstɝ.sɪv/
Adjective
abstersive (comparative more abstersive, superlative most abstersive)
- Cleansing; purging; abstergent. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- If he cannot digest a strong and abstersive drug, for to remove his evill, let him at least take a lenitive pill to ease the same.
Translations
cleansing, purging
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Noun
abstersive (plural abstersives)
- (now rare) Something cleansing; detergent; abstergent. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
- (Can we date this quote?), John Milton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate.
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References
- “abstersive” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
French
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