catharticaladj.
= cathartic adj.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [adjective] > purifying or refining
purgatoryc1390
cathartical1656
cathartic1678
polishing1788
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative
outrunningeOE
laxativea1398
purgativea1398
openinga1400
abstersive?a1425
purging?c1425
solublec1503
minorative1543
purgy1562
relaxing1562
solutive1564
benedict1576
aperitive1582
scouring1597
apertive1605
dejective1605
relaxative1611
subductory1620
calastic1621
aperient1626
cathartic1639
dejectory1640
relaxant1651
spurginga1652
cathartical1656
anastomotic1657
ecphractic1657
ecphractical1657
rhyptical1657
rhyptic1659
loosening1665
eccathartic1681
fluxing1702
chalastic1704
loosinga1722
hypactic1753
evacuatory1789
evacuant1800
relaxatory1925
1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1712) Gen. Pref. 8 Not only to a Political degree of vertue, but Cathartical.
1680 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) v. 336 Scarce any Elementary Salt is in small quantity Cathartical.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 117 A leading article..To Tories and to Whigs alike cathartical.
Derivatives
caˈthartically adv.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [adverb] > in purifying manner
cathartically1816
1816 T. Taylor in Pamphleteer 8 48 Or it [the soul] lives cathartically, the exemplar of which is the Saturnian kingdom.
caˈtharticalness n.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Catharticalness..purging Quality.
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