laxationn.
/lakˈseɪʃən/ The action of loosening or relaxing; the state of being loosened or relaxed; occasionally an instance or means of relaxing, a laxative application.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [noun] > muscular tension > looseness of muscles
laxation1398
relaxing?a1425
laxity1528
laxness1634
relaxity1908
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
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) viii. xxvii. 337 Hote water is contrary to laxacion yf the heete of the ayre is not stronge for the tyme also.
?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (1585) K iv Beanes sodde in Veniger..do greatlye withold Laxation.
1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune i. xxiv. 33 a These are the prouocations of leacherie, these are the laxations of libertie.
1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions v. 34 That Law, without execution whereof there cannot but follow a laxation of the whole frame [of Nature].
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 420 The hernia,..it's cured by laxation.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 127 By reason of the laxation and flagging of the membranes.
1700 T. Bennet Answer Dissenters Pleas 5 By reason of..Laxation of Discipline in those Wars, Atheism has much increas'd.
1832 I. Taylor Sat. Evening 26 The movement—the laxation of the human mind in all countries.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 252 An initial mercurial purge, followed by milder saline laxations..will afford some amelioration.
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