purgation

Etymology
From, borrowed from , itself borrowed from ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
 * 2) * 1908, Aristotle; Thomas Taylor, transl., “On the Generation of Animals”, The Treatises of Aristotle, page 278:
 * But those females who conceive without menstrual purgations, or who conceive during the time of the menstrual efflux, and not afterwards,and in the second instance because, after the completion of the menstrual purgations, the mouth of the womb becomes closed.
 * 1) * 1992, Helen Rodnite Lemay, editor, “Introduction”, Women's Secrets: A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' De Secretis, page 42:
 * William evidently does not have the appreciation for women that Hildegard exhibits, yet he does not consider their monthly purgations to be a source of evil.
 * 1) The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt.
 * 2) * 1969, Peter Heath, The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation, published 2007, page 211:
 * Records concerning the individual purgations, which tell us about the crime of the offender and the date of his release, are much more capriciously registered: four dioceses, or some eight counties, yield only fifty-four examples between 1450 and 1530; out of twenty-four registers eleven have no such entries.
 * 1)  Exoneration or the act undertaken to achieve exoneration.
 * 1) * 1969, Peter Heath, The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation, published 2007, page 211:
 * Records concerning the individual purgations, which tell us about the crime of the offender and the date of his release, are much more capriciously registered: four dioceses, or some eight counties, yield only fifty-four examples between 1450 and 1530; out of twenty-four registers eleven have no such entries.
 * 1)  Exoneration or the act undertaken to achieve exoneration.
 * 1)  Exoneration or the act undertaken to achieve exoneration.