offscouring Copy link • offscouring: purgāmentum (dirt, sweepings: both lit. and fig.): the o. of this world, purgamenta hujus mundi, Vulg. 1 Cor. iv. 14. See also refuse (subs.).
OFFSCOURING Copy link • OFFSCOURINGFiguratively, Of persons, purgamentum; sentina; quisquiliae. Tace tu, quem ego esse puto infra infimos homines (among the offscouring of the people, Terentianus).