单词 | abstergent |
释义 | abstergentadj.n. Now rare. A. adj. Having a cleansing or abrading quality; cleansing, abrading (literal, esp. with reference to the body, and figurative). Cf. abstersive adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [adjective] cleansinga1300 mundifying1579 scouring1594 detergent1600 detersive1601 abstersory1609 abstergent1617 thorough-cleansing1642 deterging1651 smegmatic1656 extersive1657 tersive1667 smectic1676 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 53 Hony..hath an abstergent or clensing force. 1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια sig.*4v Ryptick, abstergent, or cleansing, removing glutinous and clammy humors. 1734 G. Thomson Anat. Human Bones 299 We see these places produce mercury, pellitory, nettles and spinage, which have a nitrous, abstergent juice. 1784 B. Cornwell Domest. Physician lxiii. 416 Great service is done by the medicated wines, impregnated with the abstergent, diuretic, and purging ingredients. 1818 W. Marsden Trav. Marco Polo (1918) xxxix. 109 By the same process they afterwards cleanse it, when it happens to contract spots, no other abstergent lotion than an igneous one being ever applied to it. 1830 J. Peggs India's Cries Brit. Humanity (ed. 2) iii. iii. 279 That abstergent holiness which is believed to wash away the sins of those who approach its [sc. an idol's] residence. 1860 J. P. Kennedy Mem. W. Wirt II. ix. 149 The abstergent, bracing, exhilarating touch of a sea-bath after a hot day. 1934 L. Thorndike Hist. Magic & Exper. Sci. IV. xlvi. 189 This provides an interesting classification of medicines into..constricting, mollificatory, indurative, purifying and abstergent, those that generate flesh, [etc.]. 2008 in Nature (Electronic ed.) 28 May (Nature news section) This is precisely where fusion experiments come in, to provide abundant, affordable and abstergent energy for all. B. n. A cleansing or abrading agent, esp. one used on the body. Cf. abstersive n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [noun] > cleaning agent smegmatic1623 detersive1634 deterger1651 detersory1657 abstergent1658 detergent1676 freshener1876 1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick ix. xx. 246 Oft-times fair women are disgraced by spots in their Faces; but the Remedy for it, is this: to use Abstergents [L. abstergentibus] and Detergents in whiting of their Faces. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Abstergents, or Abstersive Medicines..abrade and wipe away such mucous Particles as they meet in their Passage; and thus cleanse the Parts of viscid or impure Adhesions. 1748 J. Fothergill Acct. Sore Throat with Ulcers 19 In this State they order'd mild Abstergents, of which Honey of Roses was esteemed the chief. 1845 Q. Rev. Amer. Protestant Assoc. July 252/1 Severinus of Cologne appeared to Damian, immersed in a river in which he was steeped as an abstergent for his trifling contaminations. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 323 One reason perhaps which causes them to avoid heavy and close-fitting clothing is their want of abstergents. 1918 J. G. Frazer Folk-lore Old Test. (1919) III. iv. ii. 126 The substitution of butter for water as an abstergent suggests that..the use of a substance which emanates from the cow is..less fraught with danger. 2009 U.S. Patent 7,484,614 1 Grains polluted by soil or the like are mixed with an abrasive abstergent and thrown into a dryer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1617 |
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