tabstersiveness

[ABSTERSIVE.] The quality of being abstersive. "Indeed, simple wounds have been soundly and suddenly cured therewith, which is imputed to the abstersive ne of the water the water [Epsom] keeping a wound clean, till the balance of nature doth recover it."Fuller: Worthies, Surrey. IMG:content-0056.png:[blocks in formation] "But after long abstinence , Paul stood forth in the midst of them."- Acts xxvii. 21. (b) From intoxicating liquor, especially in the phrase "total abstinence. [See ABSTAINER.] (c) From undue indulgence of the appetites. "The precept that enjoins him abstinence." Cowper : Progre of Error, 236. *(d) From fighting during a stipulated interval; a truce, a temporary ce ation of arms. ( Old Scotch .) "It was the 27th of September, some days before the expiring of the abstinence , that the noblemen did meet (as was appointed) to consult upon the means of a perfect peace." -Spot is wood: Hist . , p. 263. This signification occurs also in French and Mediæval Latin. It 8. [Lat. abstinent i a.] abs-tin-en-çỹ, [ABSTAIN.] Abstinence. "Were our rewards for the abstinencies or woes of the present life..."- Hammond on Fundamentals. Now nearly superseded by ABSTINENCE.