evacuatorn.
/ɪˈvakjuːeɪtə/ One who or that which evacuates (in the senses of the verb).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > discharge of putrid matter > passage for or ejector
evacuator1611
cloaca1711
society > law > rule of law > illegality > [noun] > legal invalidity or faultiness > annulment or abrogation > one who
abrogatora1602
evacuator1611
repealer1687
repealist1810
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun]
mundificativea1400
mundifierc1475
mundification1580
mundicative1632
evacuative1656
relaxer1671
expeller1683
evacuatory1707
evacuator1718
rhyptic1721
abluent1726
evacuant1727
expellent1823
mundificant1842
eliminant1852
depletant1880
wash-out1955
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vuideur, a voyder, emptier, euacuater.
a1660 H. Hammond Wks. I. 175 (T.) Be not too busy..in excusing the great evacuators of the Law.
1696 J. Edwards Demonstr. Existence God ii. v. 99 The Ears are the Evacuators of the bilious Excrement that flows thither.
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 63 The whole Materia Medica is certainly to be included under..Alteratives, Evacuators, and Restoratives.
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts.
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