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abstersing

abstersing is the present participle and gerund 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 abstersing

What is abstersing the present participle and gerund of?
Abstersing is the present participle and gerund of absterse.

Words near abstersing in the dictionary

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

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