evacuantadj.n.
/ɪˈvakjʊənt/ A. adj. Medicine.
That evacuates or tends to evacuate; promoting evacuation, cathartic, purgative.
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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
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 214 Evacuant and debilitating remedies.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 43 Their general operation is evacuant, either by the stomach, bowels, or skin.
1881 tr. Trousseau & Pidous' Treat. Therap. 168 Evacuant treatment in general.
B. n.
1. Medicine. A medicine that promotes evacuation; as a purgative, emetic, diaphoretic.
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mundificativea1400
mundifierc1475
mundification1580
mundicative1632
evacuative1656
relaxer1671
expeller1683
evacuatory1707
evacuator1718
rhyptic1721
abluent1726
evacuant1727
expellent1823
mundificant1842
eliminant1852
depletant1880
wash-out1955
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 4 9 Those stupendous Effects which vegetable Concretes excite in the Body, both as Evacuants and Alterants.
1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 32 The Emetic repeated did not act as an Evacuant in the least.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 73 Asarabacca is used by native practitioners in India as a powerful evacuant.
1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. 2 To the class of evacuants belong emetics..and diuretics.
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2. In Organ-building, a valve to let out the air from the bellows.
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