Deterge
31DÉTERGER — v. a. T. de Médec. Nettoyer, mondifier. Déterger une plaie, un ulcère. DÉTERGÉ, ÉE. participe …
32DÉTERGENT, ENTE — adj. T. de Médecine Qui déterge. On dit plutôt DÉTERSIF …
33DÉTERSIF, IVE — adj. T. de Médecine Qui déterge. Remède détersif. Substantivement, Un excellent détersif …
34Album graecum — Album græcum , or stercus canis officinale , is the dung of dogs or hyenas that has become white through exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather.White dog dung was formerly used as a medicinal drug, often mixed with honey, to cleanse and… …
35absterge — [ab stʉrj′] vt. absterged, absterging 〚L abstergere < ab(s) , away + tergere, to wipe: see DETERGE〛 Archaic 1. to wipe away; clean 2. to purge abstergent adj., n. abstersion …
36clean — cleanness, n. /kleen/, adj., cleaner, cleanest, adv., cleaner, cleanest, v. adj. 1. free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress. 2. free from foreign or extraneous matter: clean sand. 3. free from pollution;… …
37detergent — /di terr jeuhnt/, n. 1. any of a group of synthetic, organic, liquid or water soluble cleaning agents that, unlike soap, are not prepared from fats and oils, are not inactivated by hard water, and have wetting agent and emulsifying agent… …
38detersive — detersively, adv. detersiveness, n. /di terr siv/, adj. 1. cleansing; detergent. n. 2. a detersive agent or medicine. [1580 90; < MF détersif < L deters(us) (ptp. of detergere; see DETERGE) + if IVE] * * * …
39mundify — /mun deuh fuy /, v.t., mundified, mundifying. 1. to cleanse; deterge: to mundify a wound. 2. to purge or purify: to mundify a person of past sins. [1375 1425; late ME < LL mundificare, equiv. to L mundi , s. of mund(us) clean + ficare FY] * * * …
40remove — re·move /ri müv/ vb re·moved, re·mov·ing vt: to change the location, position, station, status, or residence of: as a: to have (an action) transferred from one court to another and esp. from a state court to a federal court see also separable… …
