Dictionary Entry
purgation
purgation is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal.
- 3noun
the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- 4noun
a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites
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- 5noun
purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
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