10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABSTERSIVE»
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The Humours of Purgatory. A Farce, as it is Acted at the New ...
'tis benign, benign, Sir $ abstersive, abstersive. J t-. . . [Gives him the Glass. Lop.
Abstersive, ha, abstersive! here, you Blockhead, take your Abstersive yourself,
and let it.;be benign, benign to you, with a Pox to you. [Th-ows it in hh Face. Car.
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A dictionary of the English and Portuguese languages
Ahsterger, v. a. to wipe off, to cleanse bv the means of abstersive medicines, to
absterge. AbHer-se , v. r. to abstain , to keep from, to forbear. — Abi- ter-tt do
vinhot to abstain from Abstersivo. See Abslergcnte. -* bslinfnria , s. f. temperance
...
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A popular and complete English dictionary
Abstersive, ab-ster'slv, a. Cleansing; having the quality of removing obstructions.
Abstinence, ah'ste-neW, [L. abs, from, and teneo, to hold,] n. In general, the act or
practice of voluntarily refraining frcm, or forbearing any action. The refraining ...
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
food, after purging, to use apozemes and broths, oat so much opening as those
used before purging ; but abstersive and mundifying clysters also are good to
conclude with, to draw away the re- liques of the humours. Bacon's Nat. History.
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ...
It is good, after purging, to use apozemes and broths, not so much opening as
those used before purging ; but abstersive and mimdifying clysters also arc good
to conclude with, to draw away the reliques of the humours. Bacon s Nat. Hist.
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The Philadelphia Medical Dictionary: Containing a Concise ...
... abstersive, cleansing, 'östersorium abstersive ; any cleans.. ing medicine: ~ _ _
bomma“, abstinence, spare living ; а suppression of habitual evaculm tions.
compression. ì финн-до, abstraction ; the power of i ' 'nd from Arent» with wing ...
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The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of ...
5to; Some waters are more abstersive than others; that is to say, mingle"
themselves more easily with saline, gummy, and unctuous substances than
others; a for all sorts of fordes and abstergenda are referrible to those heads,
especially '5 ...
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The Natural History of Northamptonshire, ... by John Morton ...
Which is all I have to observe about the Figuliue Ear-ths :v I proceed to those that
are xflbflarsiw, As. to the Earth', or those that are Abstersive: lflcannot say we lure
here the true Fat-ders Earth," Cimolia puzrpurasceus; but we have in several ...
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Pharmacopoeia Officinalis Extemporanea: Or, a Compleat ...
Besides those Qralities for which they have this Rank, they are 'also accounted
abstersive in some measure, and for that reason are met with in Diuretick
Compositious in the ShopMedicines, but they are very seldom in other
Prescription. 2ox.
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The History of the Royal Society of London
The rarity of these abstersive earths is, that, though thCY' be composed
ofinnumerable little sands, yet have they no great ones, much less stones, which
is the bane of earth otherwise good enough. Now it is easy to conceive, how
pernicious it ...
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