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单词 emunction
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emunctionn.

Forms: Also 1600s imunction.
Etymology: < Latin ēmunctiōn-em a wiping of the nose, noun of action < ēmungĕre to wipe the nose.
Obsolete. rare.
1. The action of wiping the nose; hence transferred of clearing any of the passages of the body.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the nose
snitingc1000
emunction1615
blow1834
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 538 We haue often seen that Medicines applied to the eyes haue through these holes past into the nose, and so haue beene cast out either by emunction or by the mouth.
1684 I. Mather Ess. Illustrious Provid. (1846) 212 After the use of unctions and emunctions.
2. Excretion. Obsolete. Cf. emunctory adj. and n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > [noun] > action of excreting
sheddingc1200
flux1377
outputtinga1387
purgationa1387
avoidancea1398
voidance1398
evacuation?1533
spurging1548
emptying1552
vacuation1583
emunction1601
regurgitation1601
vacation1617
excretion1640
egestion1644
weeping1655
elimination1665
despumation1684
excreting1849
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the eyes
emunction1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. v. 42 The imunction of the eies, with the juice thereof [sc. green onions], is thought to clense their cicatrices or cloudinesse of the eies.
1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) ii. 71 The curious emunctions of the pores.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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