ABLUTION
\ɐblˈuːʃən], \ɐblˈuːʃən], \ɐ_b_l_ˈuː_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ABLUTION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
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The water used in cleansing.
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A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.
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A washing or cleansing.
By Oddity Software
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The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
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The water used in cleansing.
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A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.
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A washing or cleansing.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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A name given to legal ceremonies in which the body is subjected to particular affusions. Ablution (especially of the extremities) with cold or tepid water is employed, therapeutically, to reduce febrile heat. Also, the washing by which medicines are separated from the extraneous matters mixed with them.
By Robley Dunglison
