| 单词 | purificator | 
| 释义 | purificatorn.ΚΠ 1733    tr.  Ceremonies & Relig. Customs Var. Nations IV. 460  				The Purificator [Fr. Purificateur] takes two Implements made of Iron, which he clashes one against the other three or four times successively, and then blows in the Palm of his own Hand, as well as that of the Person whom he purifies. 1794    Aphorisms Wisdom  i. 42  				He who existed before all Worlds..assumed Man's Nature to be our Redeemer: He is our Illuminator, Admonitor, Counsellor, Purificator, Leader, Physician, and thus Saviour. 1843    D. Shea  & A. Troyer Dabistan I. i. xiv. 326  				During prayers recited by the purificator and himself, he passes over several heaps of stones. 1867    Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 414  				The conjurers, purificators, mountebanks, and charlatans.  2.  A thing that purifies or cleanses; an apparatus for removing impurities from a substance.In quot. ?1813   perhaps a cart used to take people to the gallows. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > removal of impurities from gas or vapour > 			[noun]		 > apparatus for purificator?1813 purifier1834 wash-bottle1849 scrubber1853 washer1853 washing-bottle1857 precipitron1938 ?1813    in  Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires 		(Brit. Mus.)	 		(1949)	 IX. 307 		(title)	  				The portable purificator of our courts of law & equity. 1849    Times 21 Sept. 12/2 		(advt.)	  				Pritchard's registered improved purificator. This valuable tube is now offered to public notice by the inventor, as a certain remedy for all obnoxious smells. 1898    H. R. Haweis in  Westm. Gaz. 6 May 2/1  				This admirable purificator receives all the vapours, gases, and impurities which escape from the first fire-chamber. 1946    Garfieldian 		(Chicago)	 7 Nov. 10/6 		(advt.)	  				Liquid skin purificator. This wonderful medicated liquid, better than suds or cream, really cleanses your face. 1993    I. Watson Inquisitor 		(BNC)	 132  				Presently they were testing their sensor pick-ups, temperature regulators, air purificators.  3.  Christian Church. A cloth used at the Eucharist for wiping the chalice and paten, and the fingers and lips of the celebrant. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > eucharistic cloth > 			[noun]		 > for wiping vessels, fingers, or lips mundatory1670 purificatory1670 manutergium1774 lavabo1837 purificator1853 manuterge1910 1853    J. D. H. Dale tr.  G. Baldeschi Ceremonial Rom. Rite 29  				The Subdeacon cleanses the chalice with the purificator [It. purificatojo]. 1890    Church Times 5 Sept. 844  				The purificator, or napkin, used for cleansing the chalice and paten after the ablutions is laid on the chalice. 1939    S. K. Padover Life & Death Louis XVI xxvii. 328  				Abbé Edgeworth's list called for a crucifix, a missal, a chalice, a communion cloth and pall, a paten, a purificator. 1961    B. Thompson Liturgies Western Church iv. 84  				Wine and water are poured into the chalice over the fingers of the celebrant, who dries them with the purificator. 1994    Observer 3 Apr. 24/6  				The purificator—the cloth to wipe the chalice as it moves between the lips of communicants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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