absterge (third-person singular simple present absterges, present participle absterging, simple past and past participle absterged)
(transitive, archaic, now, rare) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away. [First attested in the early 16th century.]
Synonyms: cleanse, purge
Source: Wiktionary
Ab*sterge, v. t. Etym: [L. abstergere, abstersum; ab, abs + tergere to wipe. Cf. F absterger.]
Definition: To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [R.] Quincy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 March 2025
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
