purgation

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Purgation may be present, and in some instances the whole of the hair has fallen off.

From The Dog by Dinks

His wife died soon after at Taos, New Mexico, and the children fell to the care of a brother in law, Mr. Boggs, who had a large ranche on the Purgation near Fort Lyon.

From The Life of Kit Carson Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

This way of Purgation is of the same nature with the old Ordeals of the Pagans.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton

The ordeal of compulsory Purgation was abolished in Man as late as 1737.

From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Caine, Hall, Sir

Next, the disciplining and simplifying of the affections and will, the orientation of the heart; which is sometimes called by the formidable name of Purgation.

From Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People by Underhill, Evelyn