[Sca-cooks] Got OED?

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

A similar spelling...


abstersive

\Ab*ster"sive\, a. [Cf. F. abstersif. See Absterge.] Cleansing;
purging. --Bacon.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


abstersive

\Ab*ster"sive\, n. Something cleansing.

The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate. --Milton.







Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Carroll-Mann" <rcmann4 at earthlink.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 12:25 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Got OED?


> I'm chugging along in the translation.  I'm in Chapter Two, and Nuñez is
> earnestly explaining that high-fiber bread is very bad for one's health.
This
> is because bran is more abstertive or mundificant than white flour.
>
> It's not often I look up a word in my Spanish dictionary, only to discover
that
> the English is equally incomprehensible.  It's extremely rare to find two
in the
> same sentence.  I have learned that "mundificant" means "cleansing".  I
> cannot
> find a definition of "abstertive", although I gather from the context that
it
> has a similar meaning.  Anyone with OED access willing to look this up for
> me?
>
> TIA
>
>
> Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
> rcmann4 at earthlink.net
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