[L. ēluvies a washing away of impurities, f. ēluĕ-re to wash off.]

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  a.  ‘Old term for the humour discharged in leucorrhœa; an inordinate discharge of any kind’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). b. ‘The effluvium from a swampy place’ (Hooper, Med. Dict.).

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1710.  T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 316. This Medicament … extirpates … the … Eluvies of depraved Humours out of the whole Body.

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