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† ˈpurgament Obs.
[ad. L. purgāment-um, f. purgāre to cleanse, purge: see -ment.]
1. That which is removed or rejected in the process of cleansing; spec. that which is excreted from an animal; excrement; filth, offscourings.
1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 295 In the..bowells of the fish,..where what nutriment hee [Jonah] had amiddest those purgaments and superfluities, the Lord knoweth. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. ix. §5 For the humors, they are commonly passed ouer in Anatomies, as purgaments, whereas [etc.]. 1609J. Rawlinson Fishermen 38 The very paring, and filth, and purgament, and off-scouring of all things. 1676Hobbes Iliad i. 298 And then Atrides th' army purify'd, And threw into the sea the purgament.
b. transf. An outgrowth; = excrement2 1.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. ii. 48 These calumnies..that hairs are a Purgament of the body altogether unprofitable.
2. = purgation 1 b. rare.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. xii. 131 The Beard..serves not for ornament..nor for a covering, nor for purgament.
3. That which purges; a purge, purgative. rare—0.
1828Webster, Purgament, a cathartic. Bacon. [Prob. due to a misunderstanding of quot. 1605 in 1.] |