Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of purifying, clarifying, or cleansing; a freeing from feculent, impure, or heterogeneous matter: as, the depuration of a fluid or of a wound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.
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- noun The removal of
impurities , especially from bodily fluids;purification ,cleansing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aside from their other physiological functions, the menses are for the woman a monthly cleansing crisis through which Nature eliminates from her system considerable amounts of waste and morbid matter which, under a natural regime of life, would be discharged by means of the organs of depuration, that is, the lungs, skin, kidneys and bowels.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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Or, should depuration not take place, but congestion accumulate in the brain, it necessarily becomes phlegmatic.
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According to one authority, “The process of depuration, in which shellfish are placed in sterile water for 48-72 hours to allow them to cleanse themselves, is effective against bacteria but not viruses.”
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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According to one authority, “The process of depuration, in which shellfish are placed in sterile water for 48-72 hours to allow them to cleanse themselves, is effective against bacteria but not viruses.”
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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According to one authority, “The process of depuration, in which shellfish are placed in sterile water for 48-72 hours to allow them to cleanse themselves, is effective against bacteria but not viruses.”
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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According to one authority, “The process of depuration, in which shellfish are placed in sterile water for 48-72 hours to allow them to cleanse themselves, is effective against bacteria but not viruses.”
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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It would have been still enfolded in the general depuration of the universe; and that arrogant being who calls himself Man, dissolved and scattered among the molecules of matter, would perhaps have remained for all time hidden in the number of mere possibilities.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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The intestines, kidneys, skin, mucous membranes and other organs of depuration are evidently not constructed or prepared to cope with inorganic, poisonous substances and to eliminate them completely.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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Thus, in all anemic diseases the blood is lacking in iron, which picks up the oxygen in the air cells of the lungs and carries it into the tissues, and in sodium, which combines with the carbonic acid (coalgas) that is constantly being liberated in the system and conveys it to the organs of depuration, especially the lungs and the skin.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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Elimination must begin in the cell, not in the organs of depuration.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
qms commented on the word depuration
A Kalenjin youth's preparation
For manhood involves separation
From infantile joys,
And foreskins of boys,
And comfort as harsh depuration.
The Kalenjin people of Kenya dominate marathon running worldwide. For a treatment of the role of coming of age traditions in fostering this dominance see:
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/01/241895965/how-one-kenyan-tribe-produces-the-worlds-best-runners
May 25, 2017
hernesheir commented on the word depuration
Wonderful, qms.
May 26, 2017
qms commented on the word depuration
Thank you, hh.
May 26, 2017