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evacuant
evacuant, a. and n. (ɪˈvækjʊənt) [f. L. ēvacuant-em, pr. pple. of ēvacuāre: see evacuate.] A. adj. Med. That evacuates or tends to evacuate; promoting evacuation, cathartic, purgative.1800 Med. Jrnl. IV. 214 Evacuant and debilitating remedies. 1818 A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. ii. 41 Their general oper... Oxford English Dictionary
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evacuatory
† eˈvacuatory, a. and n. Obs. rare. [f. prec.; see -ory.] = evacuant A. and B.1704 Gentleman Instr. (1732) 309 (D.) An imposthume calls for a lance, and oppletion for unpalatable evacuatories. 1789 W. Falconer Ess. Health Pers. Agric. 84 Medicines of the evacuatory kind. Oxford English Dictionary
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evacuative
evacuative, a. and n. (ɪˈvækjuːətɪv) [a. F. évacuatif, -ive, f. évacuer, ad. L. ēvacuāre: see evacuate and -ive.] A. adj. That evacuates or empties (the bowels); cathartic, purgative, evacuant.1611 Cotgr., Evacuatif, euacuatiue; purgative. 1828 in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. B. n. An evacuative medi... Oxford English Dictionary
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