Definition of purge

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Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..

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Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
Absterge :: Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge..
Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
Euphorbia :: Euphorbia (n.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products..
Flux :: Flux (v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
Drench :: Drench (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic..
Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..
Emend :: Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal..
Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse..
Expurgate :: Expurgate (v. t.) To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book..
Ricinus :: Ricinus (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi..
Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).
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