aperitiveadj.n.
/əˈpɛrɪtɪv/ A. adj.† 1. Tending to open. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [adjective] > opening or unclosing > tending to open
aperitive1686
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 381 Its [a key's] Power of opening a Door (which, perhaps, some School-Men would call its aperitive Faculty).
2. Medicine. Tending to open the bowels; aperient.
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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
1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes i. xvi. 16 Warme and drie and aperatiue.
1613 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (rev. ed.) ii. xxxvii. 434 Aperitive things are good for a man thats troubled with the collike.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 167 Smallage is diuretic and aperitive.
B. n.
[sc. medicine, article of diet.]
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative
laxativec1386
abstersive?a1425
purgative?a1425
lax1526
purgation1527
cleanser1528
looser1528
laskc1540
purger1558
solutory1561
scouring1575
expulsive1576
purge1593
solutive1605
opener1610
physica1616
calastic1621
loosener1630
minorative1633
relaxativea1637
cathartic1651
eccoprotic1656
vacuative1656
aperitive1671
spurger1681
aperient1682
hypercathartic1706
chalastic1708
scourer1718
drastic1783
solvent1815
purgament1828
dejector1831
laxation1897
mochlic1907
jollop1955
poop-pusher1966
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xvi. 361 Apperitives..open the mouths of the vessels.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vi. 83 Administer to each of them..Aperitives.
1841 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 260 The other physicians..all insisted on the use of the strongest aperitives.
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