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Webster 1913 Edition
Cleanse
Cleanse
(klĕnz)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cleansed
(klĕnzd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cleansing
.] To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son
cleanseth
us from all sin. 1 John i. 7.
Can’st thou not minister to a mind diseased,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Which weighs upon the heart?
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse
the suffed bosom of that perilous stuffWhich weighs upon the heart?
Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Cleanse
CLEANSE
, v.t.1.
To purify; to make clean; to remove filth, or foul matter of any kind, or by any process whateve, as by washing, rubbing, scouring, scraping, purging, ventilation, &c.; as, to cleanse the hands or face to cleanse a garment; to cleanse the bowels; to cleanse a ship; to cleanse an infected house.2.
To free from a foul or infectious disease; to heal. Lev. 14:4, 8; Mark 1:42.3.
To free from ceremonial pollution, and consecrate to a holy use. Numb. 8:15; Exek. 43:20.4.
To purify from guilt. 1 John 1:7.5.
To remove; as, to cleanse a crime.