cleansev. t.[AS. clnsian, fr. clne clean. See Clean.] 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.)