† saxifragousadj.
Obsolete. rare.
That has the property of ‘breaking’ or dissolving the stone in the bladder. Also figurative.
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 84 Saxifragous herbes, and such as are conceived of power to breake the stone. View more context for this quotation
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iii. 98 I have six or seven Instances more,..which will make such a Saxifragous Dose, that no scruple can stand before it.
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