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To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.

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  1. v. t. To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
  2. v. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
  3. v. purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins
  4. 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.
  5. 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 soncleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7.Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweetoblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuffWhich weighs upon the heart Shak.
  6. v:100 v. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing v. purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins