abstersiven.adj.

Brit.

/əbˈstəːsɪv/,

/abˈstəːsɪv/, U.S.

/əbˈstərzᵻv/,

/æbˈstərzᵻv/

Forms: late Middle English abstersyue, late Middle English–1500s abstersiue, 1500s abstersife, 1500s– abstersive.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French abstersif; Latin abstersivus; Latin abstersiva.

Etymology: As adjective < Middle French abstersif, adjective (French abstersif ; 1314 in Old French) and its etymon post-classical Latin abstersivus (13th cent. in British and continental sources) < classical Latin absters- , past participial stem of abstergēre absterge v. + -īvus -ive suffix. As noun partly < Middle French abstersif, noun (French abstersif ; 14th cent.) and partly < post-classical Latin abstersiva (1363 in Chauliac), use as noun of neuter plural of abstersivus . Compare Spanish abstersivo (mid 16th cent. or earlier as adjective), Portuguese abstersivo (1563). Compare absterse v.

Now rare.

A. n.

A medicine or other agent that cleans or purges. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative

laxativec1386

abstersive?a1425

purgative?a1425

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cleanser1528

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laskc1540

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solutory1561

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expulsive1576

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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

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 76 (MED) If we wile purge forsoþ, we shal gyue moderate abstersyuez [L. abstergentia].

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 170 Or what euery place..in which is sanies..i. quittour or filth, it is to vse mundificatiues & abstersiuez & lauatiuez [?c1425 Paris clensynge medecynes, scourynge medecynes, & wasshyng medecynes; L. mundificativis abstersivis et lavativis.].

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. i. iii. f. 2^v Such medicines as do mundifie, and cleanse wounds or filthy vlcers: are called abstersiues.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 11 The lowest lees of a canonicall infection liver-grown to their sides; which perhaps will never uncling, without the strong abstersive of som heroick magistrat.

1699 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick v. 40 To preserve Health..no better ways and means can be used, than applying at certain intervals, to those cleansers or abstersives here before mentioned.

1702 W. Petty in T. Sprat Hist. Royal Soc. (ed. 2) 295 Abstersives are Fuller's earth, Soap, Linseed-oyl, and Oxgall.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vi. 83 Administer to each of them..Abstersives.

1851 Homœopathic Rec. 1 Nov. 79 Tonics and stimulants, forced attention to this or that course of life, sedatives and palliatives, repellants, alteratives, and abstersives, are the resources of Allopathy.

1883 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 203 Grape-breakfasts, grape-luncheons, and grape-suppers.., but no bread nor anything that could interfere with the system-renovating effect of the sweet abstersive.

1908 D. Graham Gram. of Philos. ii. 55 Consider how enormously the characters of most of the early and mediaeval saints, even, would have been improved by liberal, diurnal washings with plain soap and water,—not holy soap and water, but simply the plain abstersives, ordinary soap and water.

B. adj.

Having the quality of cleansing, scouring, or washing away impurities; that purges. Also: of or relating to abstersion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative

outrunningeOE

laxativea1398

purgativea1398

openinga1400

abstersive?a1425

purging?c1425

solublec1503

minorative1543

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relaxing1562

solutive1564

benedict1576

aperitive1582

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apertive1605

dejective1605

relaxative1611

subductory1620

calastic1621

aperient1626

cathartic1639

dejectory1640

relaxant1651

spurginga1652

cathartical1656

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ecphractic1657

ecphractical1657

rhyptical1657

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eccathartic1681

fluxing1702

chalastic1704

loosinga1722

hypactic1753

evacuatory1789

evacuant1800

relaxatory1925

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 81^v Þe medecene abstersyue [?c1425 Paris clensynge medecyne; L. medicamen abstersivum].

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 178^v (MED) Piper is a spice of a grayne or corne..it is attractiue & abstersyue.

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 27 White betes are also abstersive, and lowseth the bealye.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 199 Lampsana is of nature hot, and somewhat abstersiue or scowring.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 656 These almonds have an abstersive propertie to bite, to clense and scoure the flesh.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 111 Has an abstersive Virtue to make clean Whatever Nature made in Man obscene.

1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 189 And let th' abstersive sponge the board renew.

1768 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 108/1 It [sc. vinegar] is attenuating, stimulating, sudorific, diuretic, abstersive, and a powerful allayer of inflammations.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 124 Aqua bendita, which the devil is said to hate even worse than monks did the common abstersive fluid.

1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Sept. 254/2 Whale oil soap is as abstersive for what I know as the most immaculate old brown Windsor.

1903 Dominion Dental Jrnl. Oct. 611 Persist in petitioning for the compulsory injection of abstersive consumption serums.

2003 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 8 Jan. 16 It has been an abstersive week in the howe... Doncaster Council had a mystery sewer problem which was traced eventually to a surfeit of fat.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	abstersive
释义	abstersiven.adj. Brit. /əbˈstəːsɪv/, /abˈstəːsɪv/, U.S. /əbˈstərzᵻv/, /æbˈstərzᵻv/ Forms: late Middle English abstersyue, late Middle English–1500s abstersiue, 1500s abstersife, 1500s– abstersive. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French abstersif; Latin abstersivus; Latin abstersiva. Etymology: As adjective < Middle French abstersif, adjective (French abstersif ; 1314 in Old French) and its etymon post-classical Latin abstersivus (13th cent. in British and continental sources) < classical Latin absters- , past participial stem of abstergēre absterge v. + -īvus -ive suffix. As noun partly < Middle French abstersif, noun (French abstersif ; 14th cent.) and partly < post-classical Latin abstersiva (1363 in Chauliac), use as noun of neuter plural of abstersivus . Compare Spanish abstersivo (mid 16th cent. or earlier as adjective), Portuguese abstersivo (1563). Compare absterse v. Now rare. A. n. A medicine or other agent that cleans or purges. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ 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 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 76 (MED) If we wile purge forsoþ, we shal gyue moderate abstersyuez [L. abstergentia]. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 170 Or what euery place..in which is sanies..i. quittour or filth, it is to vse mundificatiues & abstersiuez & lauatiuez [?c1425 Paris clensynge medecynes, scourynge medecynes, & wasshyng medecynes; L. mundificativis abstersivis et lavativis.]. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. i. iii. f. 2^v Such medicines as do mundifie, and cleanse wounds or filthy vlcers: are called abstersiues. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 11 The lowest lees of a canonicall infection liver-grown to their sides; which perhaps will never uncling, without the strong abstersive of som heroick magistrat. 1699 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick v. 40 To preserve Health..no better ways and means can be used, than applying at certain intervals, to those cleansers or abstersives here before mentioned. 1702 W. Petty in T. Sprat Hist. Royal Soc. (ed. 2) 295 Abstersives are Fuller's earth, Soap, Linseed-oyl, and Oxgall. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vi. 83 Administer to each of them..Abstersives. 1851 Homœopathic Rec. 1 Nov. 79 Tonics and stimulants, forced attention to this or that course of life, sedatives and palliatives, repellants, alteratives, and abstersives, are the resources of Allopathy. 1883 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 203 Grape-breakfasts, grape-luncheons, and grape-suppers.., but no bread nor anything that could interfere with the system-renovating effect of the sweet abstersive. 1908 D. Graham Gram. of Philos. ii. 55 Consider how enormously the characters of most of the early and mediaeval saints, even, would have been improved by liberal, diurnal washings with plain soap and water,—not holy soap and water, but simply the plain abstersives, ordinary soap and water. B. adj. Having the quality of cleansing, scouring, or washing away impurities; that purges. Also: of or relating to abstersion. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative outrunningeOE laxativea1398 purgativea1398 openinga1400 abstersive?a1425 purging?c1425 solublec1503 minorative1543 purgy1562 relaxing1562 solutive1564 benedict1576 aperitive1582 scouring1597 apertive1605 dejective1605 relaxative1611 subductory1620 calastic1621 aperient1626 cathartic1639 dejectory1640 relaxant1651 spurginga1652 cathartical1656 anastomotic1657 ecphractic1657 ecphractical1657 rhyptical1657 rhyptic1659 loosening1665 eccathartic1681 fluxing1702 chalastic1704 loosinga1722 hypactic1753 evacuatory1789 evacuant1800 relaxatory1925 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 81^v Þe medecene abstersyue [?c1425 Paris clensynge medecyne; L. medicamen abstersivum]. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 178^v (MED) Piper is a spice of a grayne or corne..it is attractiue & abstersyue. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 27 White betes are also abstersive, and lowseth the bealye. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 199 Lampsana is of nature hot, and somewhat abstersiue or scowring. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 656 These almonds have an abstersive propertie to bite, to clense and scoure the flesh. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 111 Has an abstersive Virtue to make clean Whatever Nature made in Man obscene. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 189 And let th' abstersive sponge the board renew. 1768 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 108/1 It [sc. vinegar] is attenuating, stimulating, sudorific, diuretic, abstersive, and a powerful allayer of inflammations. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 124 Aqua bendita, which the devil is said to hate even worse than monks did the common abstersive fluid. 1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Sept. 254/2 Whale oil soap is as abstersive for what I know as the most immaculate old brown Windsor. 1903 Dominion Dental Jrnl. Oct. 611 Persist in petitioning for the compulsory injection of abstersive consumption serums. 2003 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 8 Jan. 16 It has been an abstersive week in the howe... Doncaster Council had a mystery sewer problem which was traced eventually to a surfeit of fat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.?a1425
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