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caˈthartical, a.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
= prec.
1656H. More Antid. Ath. (1712) Gen. Pref. 8 Not only to a Political degree of vertue, but Cathartical. 1680Boyle Scept. Chem. v. 336 Scarce any Elementary Salt is in small quantity Cathartical. 1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 117 A leading article..To Tories and to Whigs alike cathartical.
Hence caˈthartically adv., caˈtharticalness.
1816T. Taylor in Pamphleteer VIII. 48 Or it [the soul] lives cathartically, the exemplar of which is the Saturnian kingdom. 1730–6Bailey, Catharticalness..purging Quality. Hence in Johnson and in mod. Dicts. |