relaxatoryadj.

Brit.

/rᵻˈlaksət(ə)ri/,

/ˌriːlakˈseɪt(ə)ri/, U.S.

/rəˈlæksəˌtɔri/,

/rəˌlækˈseɪˌtɔri/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: relax v., -atory suffix².

Etymology: < relax v. + -atory suffix². Compare post-classical Latin relaxatorius (in medicine) loosening (mid 5th cent.).

†1. Characterized by the remission of sins or other offences. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [adjective] > freeing from liability or obligation

relaxatory1581

absolvatory1611

dispensative1621

dispensatory1635

dispensing1642

laxative1645

disobligatorya1649

exonerative1819

dispensive1828

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 402 They would graunt plenary remission of Sinnes: and would make out their Bulles relaxatory [data pecunia relaxarent..quod plenariam peccatorum remissionem indulgerent].

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. v. iv. 430 Two plaintiffs, one of them has been cleared of legal interest..by the relaxatory purge.

a1896 E. W. Benson Cyprian (1897) iii. 150 The one moral of all the Visions is severely disciplinary and not relaxatory.

2. Physiology and Medicine. = relaxant adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative

outrunningeOE

laxativea1398

purgativea1398

openinga1400

abstersive?a1425

purging?c1425

solublec1503

minorative1543

purgy1562

relaxing1562

solutive1564

benedict1576

aperitive1582

scouring1597

apertive1605

dejective1605

relaxative1611

subductory1620

calastic1621

aperient1626

cathartic1639

dejectory1640

relaxant1651

spurginga1652

cathartical1656

anastomotic1657

ecphractic1657

ecphractical1657

rhyptical1657

rhyptic1659

loosening1665

eccathartic1681

fluxing1702

chalastic1704

loosinga1722

hypactic1753

evacuatory1789

evacuant1800

relaxatory1925

1925 E. G. T. Liddell & C. S. Sherrington in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 97 273 After severance of the hamstring nerve the traction on the knee-flexors has ceased..in permanence to exert its previous relaxatory influence on the extensor's myotatic contraction.

1970 Lancet 29 Aug. 474/2 When a vagotomy is done, all the afferent fibres and the efferent relaxatory fibres are sacrificed along with the parasympathetic efferent supply.

2008 Placenta 28 1158/2 A major stumbling block in determining relaxatory mechanisms has been the difficulty in demonstrating reproducible endothelial-dependent relaxation in isolated fetoplacental blood vessels.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	relaxatory
释义	relaxatoryadj. Brit. /rᵻˈlaksət(ə)ri/, /ˌriːlakˈseɪt(ə)ri/, U.S. /rəˈlæksəˌtɔri/, /rəˌlækˈseɪˌtɔri/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: relax v., -atory suffix². Etymology: < relax v. + -atory suffix². Compare post-classical Latin relaxatorius (in medicine) loosening (mid 5th cent.). †1. Characterized by the remission of sins or other offences. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [adjective] > freeing from liability or obligation relaxatory1581 absolvatory1611 dispensative1621 dispensatory1635 dispensing1642 laxative1645 disobligatorya1649 exonerative1819 dispensive1828 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 402 They would graunt plenary remission of Sinnes: and would make out their Bulles relaxatory [data pecunia relaxarent..quod plenariam peccatorum remissionem indulgerent]. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. v. iv. 430 Two plaintiffs, one of them has been cleared of legal interest..by the relaxatory purge. a1896 E. W. Benson Cyprian (1897) iii. 150 The one moral of all the Visions is severely disciplinary and not relaxatory. 2. Physiology and Medicine. = relaxant adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative outrunningeOE laxativea1398 purgativea1398 openinga1400 abstersive?a1425 purging?c1425 solublec1503 minorative1543 purgy1562 relaxing1562 solutive1564 benedict1576 aperitive1582 scouring1597 apertive1605 dejective1605 relaxative1611 subductory1620 calastic1621 aperient1626 cathartic1639 dejectory1640 relaxant1651 spurginga1652 cathartical1656 anastomotic1657 ecphractic1657 ecphractical1657 rhyptical1657 rhyptic1659 loosening1665 eccathartic1681 fluxing1702 chalastic1704 loosinga1722 hypactic1753 evacuatory1789 evacuant1800 relaxatory1925 1925 E. G. T. Liddell & C. S. Sherrington in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 97 273 After severance of the hamstring nerve the traction on the knee-flexors has ceased..in permanence to exert its previous relaxatory influence on the extensor's myotatic contraction. 1970 Lancet 29 Aug. 474/2 When a vagotomy is done, all the afferent fibres and the efferent relaxatory fibres are sacrificed along with the parasympathetic efferent supply. 2008 Placenta 28 1158/2 A major stumbling block in determining relaxatory mechanisms has been the difficulty in demonstrating reproducible endothelial-dependent relaxation in isolated fetoplacental blood vessels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1581
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