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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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72 words match “CLEANSE”

MUNDIFICANT a.
Serving to cleanse and heal. -- n.
MUNDIFY v.
To cleanse. [Obs.]
PENITENTIAL a.
"Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. Sir W. Scott.
PLONGE v.
To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.
PURGATORY a.
Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke.
PURGE v.
To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. "Till fire purge all things new." Milton.
PURGER n.
One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
PURIFICATIVE a.
Having power to purify; tending to cleanse. [R.]
PURIFIER n.
One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.
QUITTURE n.
A discharge; an issue. [Obs.] To cleanse the quitture from thy wound. Chapman.
RACK v.
hich we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner. Bacon. Rack vintage, wine cleansed and drawn from the lees. Cowell.
RINSE v.
To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
RUB v.
To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver. The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation. South.
SANCTIFY v.
To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify. Sanctify them through thy truth. John xvii. 17.
SCAVENGE v.
To cleanse, as streets, from filth. C. Kingsley.
SCOUR v. 2 definitions
especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress.
SEED n.
enus Apion, which live in the seeds of various plants. -- Seed wool, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds. [Southern U.S.]
SPONGE v.
To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.
SPRINKLE v.
To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify. Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Heb. x. 22.
SUBLIMATE v.
fine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate. The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt. Dr. H. More.
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