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English
Etymology
From Middle French abstersif, from Latin abstersus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
abstersive (comparative more abstersive, superlative most abstersive)
- Cleansing; purging; abstergent.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, “That the taste of goods or evilles doth greatly depend on the opinion we have of them”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book I, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC, page 137:If he cannot digeſt a ſtrong and abſterſive drugge, for to remove his evill, let him at leaſt take a lenitive pill to eaſe the ſame.
1631, Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , paragraph 65, pages 21–22, →OCLC:Therefore it is good, after Purging, to vſe Apozumes, and Broths, not ſo much Opening as thoſe vſed before Purging, but Abſterſiue and Mundifying Cliſters alſo are good to conclude with, to draw away the Reliques of the Humours, that may haue deſcended to the Lower Region of the Body.
1671, Robert Boyle, “An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities. Chapter I.”, in Robert Boyle, Tracts . About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. , London: W H for Ric Davis, →OCLC, page 6:[S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are deoppilating, others inciding, reſolving, diſcuſſing, ſuppurating, abſterſive of noxious adherences, and thickning the Blood and humors, being aſtringent, Anodinous or appeaſing paine &c.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
abstersive (plural abstersives)
- (now rare) Something cleansing; detergent; abstergent.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstersive”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
French
Adjective
abstersive
- feminine singular of abstersif