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purging places

purging places is the plural of purging place.

Meaning of purging place

Noun

purging place (plural purging places)

  1. (obsolete, premodern medicine) A body part where excess humors are expelled.
    • An aposteme gendred in þe purgynge places [sc. Latin tribus emunctoriis], þat is to say, of þe brayne vnder þe eres, of þe herte vnder þe arme holes, of þe lyuer in the schares.c. 1425, translating Guy de Chauliac as The Grande Chirurgie, p. 154
  2. (obsolete) A place where the body is purged of waste: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
    • He buylt in all streetes in Rome publique purging places [sc. Spanish latrinas publicas].1577, Antonio de Guevara, translated by Edward Hellowes, Chronicles, page 29
    Synonyms:
    bathroom
  3. (archaic) The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.
    • Is this, said I, the Papists purging place?1603, Elizabeth Melville, Ane Godlie Dreame, l. 262

Questions about purging places

What is purging places the plural of?
Purging places is the plural of purging place.

Words near purging places in the dictionary

  1. purging cassia
  2. purging cassias
  3. purging nut
  4. purging nuts
  5. purging place
  6. purging places
  7. purgingly
  8. purgings
  9. Purgitsville
  10. puri
  11. puri-teen

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