Obs. rare. [Cf. prec.] trans. To snuff (a candle). Also fig.

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1561.  Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc., 51. He had the charge … of seuen candels, for those must he pourge and snaste. Ibid. He … snastech and pourgeth by faithe, what thinge so euer hath nede to be pourged.

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