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detersive

[ dih-tur-siv ]

adjective

  1. cleansing; detergent.


noun

  1. a detersive agent or medicine.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ٱs· adverb
  • ·ٱs·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of detersive1

1580–90; < Middle French éٱ < Latin ŧٱ ( us ) (past participle of ŧٱŧ; deterge ) + -if -ive
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Example Sentences

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In the first case, we see evidence of exanthematic diseases, which present only the lightest forms of detersive disorders, such as measles, scarlatina, or that more serious one, from its pustulous form, the small-pox.

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If, again, grief were an antiseptic for future misdeeds or a detersive for past faults, one might again understand, but now it falls indifferently on the bad and on the good; it is blind.

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The wood of it is full of sap, and as it burns sends forth a very biting smoke; and the ashes of it thoroughly burnt are so acrimonious, that they make a lye extremely detersive.

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