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单词 abstergify
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abstergifyv.

Forms: 1600s abstergifie.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; modelled on an Italian lexical item. Etymons: Latin abstergēre , -ify suffix.
Etymology: Irregularly < classical Latin abstergēre absterge v. + -ify suffix, after Italian astergere (1517–24; mid 15th cent. as abstergere ). Compare earlier absterge v., absterse v.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To cleanse. Cf. absterge v.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (intransitive)]
abstergify1612
exterge1657
clean1708
to clean up1886
1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. ii. 93 Specially, when wee would abstergifie [It. astergere], and that the [barley] huske remaine behind in the boyling of it, yet be it as it will, I finde it no wayes friendly to my selfe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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