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cleanser|ˈklɛnzə(r)|
[f. cleanse v. + -er1.]
gen. One who or that which cleanses.
a1000[Somner has clǽnsere]. 1570Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 355 For clensing the howse..xljs. jd. whereof y⊇ dresser and clensers had. 1579J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule i. xviii. 32 The nosethrils clensers of the braine. 1598–9Bodley in All Y. Round (1882) July 519/2 If the cleanser of the Library do his duty. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 58 In a bath..two fellows desir'd to borrow his strigil or cleanser. 1668Culpepper & Cole tr. Barthol. Anat. Introd., The Kernels..are vulgarly called Emunctories or Clensers. 1712Spect. No. 548 ⁋1 Excellent cleansers of the brain. 1716Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 147 If..oaths be allowed to them for cleansers, the Government..will be much out in their politics. 1817Act 57 Geo. III c. xxix. §59 Scavengers, rakers, or cleansers of the streets.
b. spec. A purgative.
1528Paynel Salerne Regim. X iij b, Hony..is a clenser. 1550Duke of Somerset in Coverdale Spir. Perle (1588) Pref. A iv b, All medicines of the soule..not hauing that clenser [faith in Christ] with them, be but overhealers. 1610Markham Masterp. i. xciii. 184 Purgations which are the strongest cleansers of the body. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Stinking breath, Give Cleansers inwardly. |