Meaning of purging place | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place where purging occurs
   obsolete
2. A body part where excess humors are expelled.
   obsolete
3. A place where the body is purged of waste: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
   obsolete
4. The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.
   archaic

Examples

“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.”

“He buylt in all streetes in Rome publique purging places [sc. Spanish latrinas publicas].”

“Is this, said I, the Papists purging place⟳?”

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