abstersive
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- abstersiveness noun
Etymology
Origin of abstersive
1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Medieval Latin abstersīvus, equivalent to Latin absters ( us ), past participle of abstergēre ( abstergent ) + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate.
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The quality of being abstersive.
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They used it first, as Pownall the local historian tells you, "as a vulnerary and abstersive," and healed wounds with it; then some labourers accidentally drank it, and Epsom's fortune was made.
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All the parts of this tree are abstersive, and therefore sovereign for the consolidating wounds; and asswage the pains of the gout: But the bark decocted in common water, to almost the consistence of a syrup, adding a third part of aqua vitæ, is a most admirable remedy for the ischiadicæ or hip-pain, the place being well rubb’d and chaf’d by the fire.
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A tablet stood of that abstersive tree, Where Aethiop's swarthy bird did build her nest; Inlaid it was with Libyan ivory, Drawn from the jaws of Afric's prudent beast.
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