purgation

Examples

• All

• Your wisdom should show itself richer to signify this to the doctor, for for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into more choler.

  Hamlet (1948)

• One catholicon must be recombined with nebulosity after purgation, the fulfillment achieved by Pontic Water, which is more luminous than amethyst or diamond.

  Fiction book (1991)

• During his stay, the city's incessant fires led him to participate in the purgation process.

  Academic text (2003)

• He has prescribed a cure that involves bloodletting as the purgation of imperfection.

  Academic text (2002)

• Likening the process of alchemical refinement to medical purgation, he explains: PREFORMATTED TABLE

  Academic text (2002)

• There were other indications also recommended for syphilis, bloodletting, baths, purgation, cauterization of the boils.

• Baako's purgation of his "closed-up bile" is an alternative means of releasing the repressed history that he attempts to impart to his community, and it resembles

  Academic text (2008)

• The purgation of the passions, which are a source of physiological disorders, would have thus provided the viewer with wholesome pleasure as well as a medically sound remedy for psychosomatic disease.

  Academic text (2004)

• During the purgation process, he felt a significant relief after using a strong laxative.

• She experienced a thorough purgation to cleanse her system after months of unhealthy eating.

Synonyms

C

catharsis

vspurgation

• Specialized

1 8.8

A medical treatment that makes the bowels empty using strong medicine

is the same process but uses a different general term

E

expelling

vspurgation

• Specialized

1 5.2

Forcing liquid or waste out of the body

is specific to cleansing the bowels using a cathartic medicine

K

katharsis

vspurgation

• Specialized

9.9

A medical emptying of the bowels using a laxative

is the same process but spelled differently in some forms

L

laxation

vspurgation

• Specialized

9.9

The passing of solid waste from the body through the anus

focuses on cleansing using a cathartic to stimulate bowel evacuation

Antonyms

C

contamination

• Specialized

76 4.8

Harmful things that make food, water, or places unsafe

F

filth

46 2.0

Dirt and disgusting things that make a place very dirty

How Strong

cathartic

• Specialized

8.5

purgation

• Archaic

9.9

laxative

• Specialized

18 4.1

loosener

5.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology