Word Meanings - PURGAMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A cathartic; a purgative. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which is excreted; excretion.
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- BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - PURGATIVELY
In a purgative manner. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - EXCRETA
Matters to be excreted. - CATHARTIC
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity. Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and - EXCRETORY
Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter. - EXCRETE
To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper. - EXCRETION
1. The act of excreting. To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira. 2. That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon. - EXCRETIVE
Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey. - CATHARTIC; CATHARICAL
Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative. 2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid. - PURGATIVE
Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic. -- n. - EXCRETIN
A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces. - ANACATHARTIC
Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n. - EMETO-CATHARTIC
Producing vomiting and purging at the same time. - CATO-CATHARTIC
A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.