superpurgation
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editsuperpurgation (plural superpurgations)
- excessive purgation
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises:
- Dr. Willis began to purge the Patient with the above-prescribed Bolus : but there happening thereupon a Superpurgation , he declined the repeating of that Purge.
References
edit“superpurgation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.