cleansern.
/ˈklɛnzə/, U.S. /ˈklɛnzər/ a. gen. One who or that which cleanses.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [noun] > one who or that which cleans
fowerc1440
mundifierc1475
cleanser1570
scavenger1596
fayer1611
cleanera1792
mundatory1860
a1000 [Somner has clǽnsere].
1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 355 For clensing the howse..xljs. jd. whereof ye dresser and clensers had.
1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule i. xviii. 32 The nosethrils clensers of the braine.
1598–9 Bodley in All Y. Round (1882) July 519/2 If the cleanser of the Library do his duty.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 58 In a bath..two fellows desir'd to borrow his strigil or cleanser.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) Introd. The Kernels..are vulgarly called Emunctories or Clensers.
1712 Spectator No. 548. ⁋1 Excellent cleansers of the brain.
1716 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 147 If..oaths be allowed to them for cleansers, the Government..will be much out in their politics.
1817 Act 57 Geo. III c. xxix. §59 Scavengers, rakers, or cleansers of the streets.
b. spec. A purgative.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative
laxativec1386
abstersive?a1425
purgative?a1425
lax1526
purgation1527
cleanser1528
looser1528
laskc1540
purger1558
solutory1561
scouring1575
expulsive1576
purge1593
solutive1605
opener1610
physica1616
calastic1621
loosener1630
minorative1633
relaxativea1637
cathartic1651
eccoprotic1656
vacuative1656
aperitive1671
spurger1681
aperient1682
hypercathartic1706
chalastic1708
scourer1718
drastic1783
solvent1815
purgament1828
dejector1831
laxation1897
mochlic1907
jollop1955
poop-pusher1966
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. X iij b Hony..is a clenser.
1550 Duke of Somerset in M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall Pearle Pref. sig. Avjv All medycynes of the soule..not hauynge that cleanser [faith in Christ] wyth them, be but ouerhealers.
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. xciii. 184 Purgations which are the strongest cleansers of the body.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Stinking breath Give Cleansers inwardly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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