A laxative medicine; ‘a slightly purgative medicine which simply unloads the bowels’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).

A medicine or other agent that cleans or purges. Also figurative.

Medicine. A purgative medicine; spec. a laxative.

A laxative medicine, an aperient. Obsolete.

A medicine or treatment that brings about purging; a purgative; spec. a laxative. Obsolete.

spec. A purgative.

One who or something which looses.

A laxative, aperient; = lax, n.2 2.

Medicine. = purgative, n. 1. Obsolete.

= solutive, n. 1.

The action of purging the bowels. †Also concrete, a purgative medicine.

An expulsive drug. Obsolete.

A purgative medicine or treatment; = purgative, n. 1. Also figurative.

A laxative or purgative medicine.

A cathartic, a laxative. Now U.S. slang.

A medicinal substance; spec. a cathartic, a purgative. Also: medicines generally. Now historical.

so in Burton for chalastick, < Greek χαλαστικός laxative.

Something which serves to loosen anything.

A mildly laxative medicine.

= relaxant, n.

A medicine which has the power of purging or evacuating; a purgative. More strictly: ‘a medicine which is capable of producing the second grade of…

A mild aperient.

= evacuative, n.

[sc. medicine, article of diet.]

A purger or purgative.

[sc. medicine, article of diet.]

(a) adj. causing hypercatharsis, violently cathartic; (b) n. a medicine of this nature.

Having power to remove rigidity or stiffness; relaxing; laxative. Also n. a chalastic medicine.

A purgative agent, a cathartic.

A drastic medicine; a severe purgative.

A laxative; a loosener.

= purgative, n. 1. rare.

A dejectory agent or medicine; an aperient.

The action of loosening or relaxing; the state of being loosened or relaxed; occasionally an instance or means of relaxing, a laxative application.

A powerful purgative. Cf. mochlical, adj.

A purgative, a medicine.

a laxative.