| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.[Websters] 2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: abstersing, abstersed, absterses, absterser, abstersers, abstersingly and abstersedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ABSTERSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Note: Absterse \Ab*sterse"\, transitive verb. To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [obsolete]. (references) |
