purging place (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

A place where purging occurs, ''particularly:''
(label, en, premodern, _, medicine, obsolete) A body part where excess humors are expelled.
* (c., 1425) translating Guy de Chauliac as ''The Grande Chirurgie'', p. 154:
*: An aposteme engender, gendred in the, þe purging place, purgynge places [''sc.'' (etyl, la, -) ''tribus emunctoriis''], that, þat is to say, of the, þe brain, brayne under, vnder the, þe ear, eres, of the, þe heart, herte under, vnder the, þe arm hole, arme holes, of the, þe liver, lyuer in the schares.
(label, en, obsolete) A place where the body is purged of waste: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
* '''1577''', Edward Hellowes translating Antonio de Guevara as ''Chronicles'', p. 29:
*: He built, buylt in all streetes in Rome public, publique purging places [''sc.'' (etyl, es, -) ''latrinas publicas''].
(label, en, Christianity, now, _, rare) The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.
* '''1603''', w:Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Melville, ''Ane Godlie Dreame'', l. 262:
*: Is this, said I, the Papist-'s, s purging place?