English Dictionary

purgation

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古語

The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative. / The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt. / (archaic) Exoneration or the act undertaken to achieve exoneration.

日本語の意味

（下剤などによる）浄化、排出の行為または過程 / 罪や有罪感からの浄化、清めの行為または過程 / （古語）無罪放免、罪状の清算のための行為

The doctor recommended a mild purgation to clear the patient's system before the procedure.

医師は処置前に患者の体内を浄化するため、軽い下剤療法を勧めた。

意味（1）

The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.

[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd.

意味（2）

The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt.

Secondly, The branches of Plants have been us'd in religious Purgations or Expiations. In the Moſaical Law there was one general kind of Sacrifice commanded for Purgation, which conſiſted of an Heifer ſacrificed and burnt to Aſhes; with which, and ſpring water, a Lee was made to ſerve for many ſorts of Purgations.

意味（3）

(archaic) Exoneration or the act undertaken to achieve exoneration.

Thus do all traitors; If their purgation did consist in words, They are as innocent as grace itself. Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.

purgations （ plural ）