Complete Definition of "abstersive"

English

Etymology
Compare French abstersif. See Absterge
Adjective
abstersive

#Cleansing; purging. - Bacon
Noun
en-noun

#Something cleansing.
#:Quotations
#:*The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate. - Milton

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