abstersion

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /æbˈstɜː.ʒn̩/    美 /æbˈstɝ.ʒn̩/|/əbˈstɝ.ʒn̩/|/æbˈstɝ.ʃn̩/|/əbˈstɝ.ʃn̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Waverley ... was offered the patriarchal refreshment of a bath for the feet ... He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained To chafe the limb, and pour the fragrant oil, but by a smoke-dried skinny old Highland woman, who did not seem to think herself much honoured by the duty imposed upon her...

词形变化

abstersions plural

词源

From Middle English abstersioun, from either Old French or Medieval Latin abstertion, from Latin abstersus, past participle of abstergēo (“to wipe off or away”).
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