purger

Outside, local gravity was working up to a real space purger.

And it was as a Purger that Terry Burelli came to the attention of the world.

The Governor, who took personal charge of the Massachusetts Guard that day, was a Purger.

The sixth point was doubtful, and yet we at last agreed that he was a purger of souls, who cleared away notions obstructive to knowledge.

Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."

In pre-modern medicine, catholicon was a soft electuary, so called as being supposedly universal in its curative and prophylactic abilities (see panacea); or a purger of all humours.

The Purger causes a Darklit person to repeat part of their programming, and Elliott, who is able to speak Styx, finds that Chester has been programmed to call the Styx and report their location.

Out on the streets, where Kremlin-watching is no mere academic exercise, the morning-after view of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, master Politburo purger, was of a man whose political gifts still fail to ease the national torment of fading opportunity.