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Fumigate   Listen
verb
Fumigate  v. t.  (past & past part. fumigated; pres. part. fumigating)  
1.
To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.
2.
To smoke; to perfume.





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"Fumigate" Quotes from Famous Books



... union with the beloved.' Whereto she will reply 'Thou art the lord and I am the bondswoman.' " Now the youth abode marvelling at such marvel-forms and the Warlock having repeated to him these words three times, turned to him and said "Arise to thy feet and perfume and fumigate thy person and don thy choicest dress and dispread thy bed, for at this very hour thou shalt see thy mistress by thy side." And so saying the Sage cast out of hand the shoulder-blades and set the phial upon the fire. Thereupon the youth arose without stay or delay and bringing a bundle ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... cleanliness were not forgotten. There are numerous charges for coals, with an amusing apology for their use in winter "because the place was so cold"; and for juniper to fumigate (ad suffumigandum). Brooms are bought to clean the library, and fox-tails to dust the ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... sweet purity that clothed her as with a consecrating garment made him shrink the more from giving her, either ideally or practically, an association with what was hateful or contaminating. But these fine words with which we fumigate and becloud unpleasant facts are not the language in which we think. Deronda's thinking went on in rapid images of what might be: he saw himself guided by some official scout into a dingy street; he entered through a dim doorway, and saw a hawk-eyed woman, rough-headed, and unwashed, ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot


Words linked to "Fumigate" :   treat, fumigator, process, fumigant, fumigation


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