purging place
English
Etymology
Originally as a calque or translation of various Latin or Spanish terms.[1]
Noun
purging place (plural purging places)
- A place where purging occurs, particularly:
- (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 gendred in þe purgynge places [sc. Latin tribus emunctoriis], þat is to say, of þe brayne vnder þe eres, of þe herte vnder þe arme holes, of þe lyuer in the schares.
- c. 1425, translating Guy de Chauliac as The Grande Chirurgie, p. 154:
- (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 buylt in all streetes in Rome publique purging places [sc. Spanish latrinas publicas].
- 1577, Edward Hellowes translating Antonio de Guevara as Chronicles, p. 29:
- (Christianity, now rare) The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.
- 1603, Elizabeth Melville, Ane Godlie Dreame, l. 262:
- Is this, said I, the Papists purging place?
- 1603, Elizabeth Melville, Ane Godlie Dreame, l. 262:
- (premodern medicine, obsolete) A body part where excess humors are expelled.
Synonyms
- (toilet facilities): See Thesaurus:bathroom
Hypernyms
- place; see also Thesaurus:bathroom
References
- "purging, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2007), Oxford: Oxford University Press.