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n. The act of purging or purifying.

n. the act of purging, especially by the use of a purgative

n. cleansing from sin or guilt

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. The act of purging; clearing, cleansing, or purifying by separating and carrying away impurities or whatever is extraneous or superfluous; purification; specifically, evacuation of the intestines by purgatives.

n. The act of cleansing from the imputation of guilt; specifically, in old law, the clearing of one's self from a crime of which one has been publicly suspected and accused.

n. purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels

n. a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites

n. the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

"It's not a light read, but it is a very complete and thought provoking discussion of how the manipulation of hope (to motivate people to contribute to the church to save the newly categorized souls in purgation) and fear (the explicit construction of a devil, of hell, and of what you had to do to get there) was managed, out of pretty thin sources in the bible."

purge    purging    ceremony   

ordeal   

cleaning    evacuation   

lustration    abstersion    sanctification    retractation    emasculation