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purgation
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Definition:1. The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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then intolerable pains at the epigastrium, super purgation,
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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Sour potions bring sound health, sharp purgations make short diseases, and the medicine the more bitter it is, the more better it is in working.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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Glose whoso will, and say both up and down,
That they were made for the purgatioun
Of urine, and of other thinges smale,
And eke to know a female from a male:
And for none other cause? say ye no?
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue (1400)
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Hamlet: for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more choler.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.571
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