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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