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abstersed

abstersed is the simple past and past participle of absterse.

Meaning of absterse

Verb

absterse (third-person singular simple present absterses, present participle abstersing, simple past and past participle abstersed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
    • […] 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...1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Oestridge”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 164

Questions about abstersed

What is abstersed the simple past and past participle of?
Abstersed is the simple past and past participle of absterse.

Words near abstersed in the dictionary

  1. abstergent
  2. abstergents
  3. absterges
  4. absterging
  5. absterse
  6. abstersed
  7. absterses
  8. abstersing
  9. abstersion
  10. abstersions
  11. abstersive

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