CLEANSE

cleanse. Cleanse, v.t. to make clean, scour, purify, clear

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Cleanse (klĕnz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleansed (klĕnzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleansing.] [[AS. clǣnsian, fr. clǣne clean. See Clean.]] To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? Shak.