menstruous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of menstruous
1375–1425; late Middle English: menstruating < Latin mēnstruus monthly; menstruate, -ous
Example Sentences
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A covenant was entered into which was written with menstruous blood, because blood was the announcer of the female period of pubescence.
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Such a taboo is strictly similar to those which surround a sacred chief or his property, a menstruous woman or a homicide, rendering them dangerous to themselves and to all who approach them.
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If it be taken inwardly, it stops the spitting of Blood, and the Dysentery or Bloody-Flux; as also the H�morrhoidal and Menstruous Fluxes; the Dose being from half a Dram to two Drams, in Knot-Grass-Water.
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Amongst the Maoris, if a man touched a menstruous woman, he would be taboo 'an inch thick.'
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God's own precept,—“Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornaments of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth, thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence,” Isa. xxx.
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