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cathartick
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Cathartical, Cathartickadjective
Purging medicines. The vermicular or peristaltick motion of the guts continually helps on their contents, from the pylorus to the rectum; and every irritation either quickens that motion in its natural order, or occasions some little inversions in it. In both, what but slightly adheres to the coats, will be loosened, and they will be more agitated, and thus rendered more fluid. By this only it is manifest, how a cathartic hastens and increases the discharges by stool; but where the force of the stimulus is great, all the appendages of the bowels, and all the viscera in the abdomen, will be twitched; by which a great deal will be drained back into the intestines, and made a part of what they discharge. John Quincy
Etymology: ϰαϑαϱτιϰὸς.
Quicksilver precipitated either with gold, or without addition, into a powder, is wont to be strongly enough cathartical, though the chymists have not yet proved, that either gold or mercury hath any salt at all, much less any that is purgative. Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymistry.
Lustrations and catharticks of the mind were sought for, and all endeavour used to calm and regulate the fury of the passions. Decay of Piety.
The piercing causticks ply their spiteful pow’r,
Emeticks ranch, and keen catharticks scour. Samuel Garth.Plato has called mathematical demonstrations the catharticks or purgatives of the soul. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 507.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cathartick in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cathartick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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