Ab*ster"sive (#), a. [Cf. F. abstersif. See Absterge.]

Cleansing; purging.

Bacon.

 

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Ab*ster"sive, n.

Something cleansing.

The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate. Milton.

 

© Webster 1913.

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