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Having the power to cleanse (especially an ulcer, wound, etc.).
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Lanfranc's Science of Cirurgie. From Middle French, French mondificatif, adjective and noun and its etymon post-classical Latin mundificativus, adjective from mundificat-, past participial stem of mundificare + -ivus.