[Sca-cooks] Got OED?

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 25 Oct 2003, at 0:36, Phlip wrote:

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

Thank you, Your Holiness.  In return, let me pass on another medical tidbit: 
bran bread engenders melancholia.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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