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n. Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.

n. The act of wiping clean: as, “ablution and abstersion,” Scott, Waverley, xx.

n. In medicine, a cleansing by substances which remove foulness from about sores, or humors or obstructions from the system.

"Baptism, immersion in water, abstersion, purification by water, is of the highest antiquity."

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