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Abstersive Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
Something cleansing.
Something cleansing.
(a.)
Cleansing; purging.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutCleansing; purging.
abstersive
\ab*ster"sive\ (&?;), a. [cf. f. abstersif. see absterge.] cleansing; purging.
abstersive
\ab*ster"sive\, n. something cleansing. the strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate.
