Definition of "abstersion" [ab•ster•sion]

• Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. (noun)

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• "Baptism, immersion in water, abstersion, purification by water, is of the highest antiquity."
• "He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained"
• "The best of all these is the shaggy hat, for it makes a very neat abstersion of the fecal matter."