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reˈlaxative, a. and n.
[f. relax v., after laxative. Cf. relaxant.]
A. adj. Tending to relax; of the nature of relaxation. rare.
1611Florio, Rilasciatiuo, laxatiue or relaxatiue in operation. 1731Gentl. Mag. I. 289 Relaxative diversions, he thinks, fall properly under the considerations of a Saturdays entertainment. 1891H. C. Halliday Someone must suffer III. xi. 197 Grudgingly..has Mrs. Felix ever countenanced these relaxative measures.
†B. n. A means of relaxing; esp. a relaxing medicine. Obs.
1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady iii. iv, It is a pursiness, a kind of stoppage..that you are troubled with:..and therefore you must use relaxatives. 1671L. Addison W. Barbary 217 The Moresco Festivals seem not so much Commemorative of received Mercies as relaxatives of Corporeal Labors.
So reˈlaxatory a. rare.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 402 They would graunt plenary remission of Sinnes: and would make out their Bulles relaxatory. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 430 Two plaintiffs, one of them has been cleared of legal interest..by the relaxatory purge. |