Word Meanings - ABSTERSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. The task of ablution and abstersion being performed. Sir W. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABSTERSION)

• Ablution
• Washing
• purification
• cleansing
• abstersion
• defecation

Related words: (words related to ABSTERSION)

• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• WASHHOUSE
  An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
• WASHBOARD
  A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which
• WASHSTAND
  A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
• WASHY
  1. Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton. 2. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions. A polish . . . not over thin and washy. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely
• WASHOUT
  The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
• WASHED SALE
  See SALE
• WASHINESS
  The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.
• WASHING
  1. The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution. 2. The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. Washing bear , the raccoon. -- Washing bottle , a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing
• WASHER
  A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, washes. 2. A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various
• WASHOE PROCESS
  The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.
• WASH STAND
  In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may be washed there and the water run off.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• WASHERMAN
  A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.
• WASHINGTONIAN
  A member of the Washingtonian Society. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell. 2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on
• WASHDISH
  See 2 (more info) 1. A washbowl.
• WASHTUB
  A tub in which clothes are washed.
• WASHBOWL
  A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.
• ABLUTION
  A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. (more info) 1. The act of washing
• ABLUTIONARY
  Pertaining to ablution.
• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
• AWASH
  Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
• SWASHING
  1. Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak. 2. Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.
• HOGWASH
  Swill. Arbuthnot.
• WHITEWASHER
  One who whitewashes.
• SWASHER
  One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms. Shak.
• UNWASHED
  Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.