What does purgative mean?
Definitions for purgative
ˈpɜr gə tɪvpurga·tive
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Princeton's WordNet
purgative, cathartic, physic, aperientadjective
a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
cathartic, evacuant, purgativeadjective
strongly laxative
Wiktionary
purgativenoun
something, such as a substance or medicine, that purges; laxative
purgativeadjective
(capable of) purging
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Purgativeadjective
Cathartick; having the power to cause evacuations downward.
Etymology: purgatif, Fr. purgativus, Lat.
Purging medicines have their purgative virtue in a fine spirit, they endure not boiling without loss of virtue. Francis Bacon.
All that is fill’d, and all that which doth fill
All the round world, to man is but a pill;
In all it works not, but it is in all
Poisonous, or purgative, or cordial. John Donne.Lenient purgatives evacuate the humours. Richard Wiseman.
Webster Dictionary
Purgativeadjective
having the power or quality of purging; cathartic
Purgativenoun
a purging medicine; a cathartic
Etymology: [L. purgativus: cf. F. purgatif.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of purgative in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of purgative in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of purgative in a Sentence
This is a purgative we need to take, obviously it will generate inflation.
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- purgatiuCatalan, Valencian
- καθαρτικόGreek
- purgativoSpanish
- puhdistava, laksatiivi, puhdistusaine, ulostusaine, ulostuslääke, purgatiiviFinnish
- laxermedelSwedish
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