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English
Etymology
From Middle English absterse, from Latin abstersus, perfect passive participle of abstergeō (“wipe off, wipe away”); formed from abs- + tergeō (“wipe”).
Pronunciation
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.
1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Oestridge”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , London: T H for Edward Dod, , →OCLC, 3rd book, page 164:[…] nor will we affirme that Iron ingeſted, receiveth in the ſtomack of the Oeſtridge no alteration whatſoever; but if any ſuch there be, we ſuſpect this effect rather from ſome way of corroſion, then any of digeſtion; not any liquid reduction or tendance to chilification by the power of naturall heate, but rather ſome attrition from an acide and vitriolous humidity in the ſtomack, which may abſterſe, and ſhave the ſcorious parts thereof; […]
Derived terms
References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absterse”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
Latin
Participle
absterse
- vocative masculine singular of abstersus