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Definition of purgative in English: purgativeadjective ˈpəːɡətɪvˈpərɡədɪv 1Strongly laxative in effect. Example sentencesExamples - Chinese people have used it for over 2000 years as a purgative medicine, although some scientists consider it a medical enigma.
- This purgative application is generally thought to be safe and effective even for geriatric and pediatric use.
- Prepared rhubarb is used when one desires to enhance the blood moving or heat clearing effects of the herb, but minimize the purgative action.
- This also applies to some purgative herbs such as rhubarb and senna leaf.
- The laxative and purgative properties of Senna were discovered in the 9th century by the Arabs, who spread its use to Europe.
- Mention of health at the end of the entry on rhubarb brings to mind purgative powers, plus questions about possible health risks if a lot of rhubarb is eaten.
- If the fortunes made from purgative pills had been devoted to the hospitals which treat the victims of their abuse, the financial problems of the voluntary hospitals would have been solved.
- A paste of the roots mixed with milk works as a laxative but with violent cathartic effect compared to the purgative jalap Ipomoea purga from which the true and milder jalap is extracted.
- The purgative activity of RH appears to be due to rhein and the sennoside components.
- Bulimia nervosa can be difficult to identify because of extreme secrecy about binge eating and purgative behaviour.
- If he was indeed suffering from syphilitic symptoms such as burning joint pain and oozing ulcerations, then this portrait could represent a sort of purgative catharsis.
Synonyms laxative, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant, purging archaic eccoprotic - 1.1 Having the effect of ridding one of unwanted feelings or memories.
the purgative action of language Example sentencesExamples - It is this purgative function of art to which Ernst Gombrich has appealed in his explication of the ‘grotesque.’
- Detoxification, in these narratives of spiritual struggle, counts as the long night of the soul: the body's purgative agony as it pours junk through all available orifices.
- Olympics have a habit of inducing these purgative phases in host cities.
- It was, therefore, to take a leading trait of character, in this instance the uncompromising, unbending business ethic of a London merchant, and to trace its damaging development and its ultimate, purgative downfall.
- The traditional vocabulary calls this the purgative path: We cleanse ourselves in order to keep God in our life.
- The savage stomping dance; the primitive, purgative rite; a music of cosmic rigour - you don't have to go far from the Cité de la Musique to find glaring precedents.
- Some of them prime your emotions, setting you up for a let down or a purgative, thundering crash.
- We seem to prefer the smile that conceals an inner deception to the honest purgative truth about ourselves.
- Prior to Election Day, there was a widespread belief that the outcome of the 2000 Election was a fluke, an aberration, that would correct itself, as a sort of natural purgative process, in 2004.
- Dreams carried great significance and were sought through fasting or other purgative ceremonies.
- What's really troubling about someone like Eminem is the very purgative nature of art.
- The need for purgative violence in order to recreate the self hearkens back to the ‘fiery zeale’ of the universal conflagration.
- What doesn't get manhandled out gets washed out with whatever purgative their employer prescribes.
- But when the six percussionists timidly clink their cymbals, it's hard to keep thinking they're high priests presiding over a purgative rite.
Synonyms purging, purifying, cleansing, cleaning, releasing, relieving, freeing, delivering, exorcising, ridding
noun ˈpəːɡətɪvˈpərɡədɪv 1A laxative. a widely employed and useful purgative Example sentencesExamples - Mild oily purgatives like castor oil or bulk laxatives such as linseed or psyllium seeds are recommended.
- His mother then confessed to inducing the colitis with purgatives and twice giving him salt solutions nasogastrically.
- Still, many people, obsessed with their bowels, continue to swell the profits of pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies by consuming purgatives regularly.
- Triphala is widely regarded as a purgative and laxative but in fact it is considered a rasayana and rejuvenator.
- He advocated enemas, emetics, purgatives and sneezing powders.
- Some of its other traditional uses have been as a mild purgative for chronic constipation and for the treatment of swollen glands.
- In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings!
- In India, Nigella seeds are combined with various purgatives to allay gripping and colic and also help kill and expel parasites.
- Emphasizing elimination through the overuse of purgatives in an already deficient individual can further deplete the body's store of minerals and essential B vitamins as well as imbalance beneficial intestinal micro-organisms.
- Purgatives should be taken on an empty stomach.
- Napoleon had been treated for a long time with tartar emetics, and the day he died he had been given a huge dose of calomer as a purgative.
- Among the more traditional remedies for plague fever were the various organic purgatives, including phlebotomy, diaphoretics, diuretics, emetics, and laxatives.
- It is considered a purgative, or a drink to help digestion.
- Its low-calorie and high calcium content, and supposed medicinal benefits as a purgative, have brought a new generation of eaters.
- Castor Oil Plant, while the plant is poisonous, the expressed thick, viscid oil is used as a powerful laxative and purgative.
- Mercury, a purgative to clean the system, and quinine, to treat fever, can cause malaria and typhus sufferers to have symptoms that mimic typhoid and dysentery.
- He rejected other common medical practices of his day such as purgatives and emetics with opium and mercury-based calomel.
- Rush had given Lewis a list of rules for preserving health, which included prescription of purgatives.
- Hippocrates attributed ‘hysteria’ to a woman's uterus, and blamed ‘melancholia’ on black bile, which he attempted to treat with purgatives.
- Medicinal rhubarbs, as a purgative, are among the most important drug plants of all time.
Synonyms laxative, enema, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant dated purge archaic eccoprotic - 1.1 A thing that rids one of unwanted feelings or memories.
confrontation would be a purgative
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French purgatif, -ive, from late Latin purgativus, from purgat- 'purified', from the verb purgare (see purge). Definition of purgative in US English: purgativeadjectiveˈpərɡədivˈpərɡədɪv 1Strongly laxative in effect. Example sentencesExamples - A paste of the roots mixed with milk works as a laxative but with violent cathartic effect compared to the purgative jalap Ipomoea purga from which the true and milder jalap is extracted.
- If the fortunes made from purgative pills had been devoted to the hospitals which treat the victims of their abuse, the financial problems of the voluntary hospitals would have been solved.
- The laxative and purgative properties of Senna were discovered in the 9th century by the Arabs, who spread its use to Europe.
- Bulimia nervosa can be difficult to identify because of extreme secrecy about binge eating and purgative behaviour.
- This also applies to some purgative herbs such as rhubarb and senna leaf.
- Chinese people have used it for over 2000 years as a purgative medicine, although some scientists consider it a medical enigma.
- If he was indeed suffering from syphilitic symptoms such as burning joint pain and oozing ulcerations, then this portrait could represent a sort of purgative catharsis.
- This purgative application is generally thought to be safe and effective even for geriatric and pediatric use.
- Mention of health at the end of the entry on rhubarb brings to mind purgative powers, plus questions about possible health risks if a lot of rhubarb is eaten.
- Prepared rhubarb is used when one desires to enhance the blood moving or heat clearing effects of the herb, but minimize the purgative action.
- The purgative activity of RH appears to be due to rhein and the sennoside components.
Synonyms laxative, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant, purging - 1.1 Having the effect of ridding someone of unwanted feelings or memories.
the purgative action of language Example sentencesExamples - Dreams carried great significance and were sought through fasting or other purgative ceremonies.
- We seem to prefer the smile that conceals an inner deception to the honest purgative truth about ourselves.
- What doesn't get manhandled out gets washed out with whatever purgative their employer prescribes.
- It is this purgative function of art to which Ernst Gombrich has appealed in his explication of the ‘grotesque.’
- Olympics have a habit of inducing these purgative phases in host cities.
- Detoxification, in these narratives of spiritual struggle, counts as the long night of the soul: the body's purgative agony as it pours junk through all available orifices.
- It was, therefore, to take a leading trait of character, in this instance the uncompromising, unbending business ethic of a London merchant, and to trace its damaging development and its ultimate, purgative downfall.
- But when the six percussionists timidly clink their cymbals, it's hard to keep thinking they're high priests presiding over a purgative rite.
- The traditional vocabulary calls this the purgative path: We cleanse ourselves in order to keep God in our life.
- The need for purgative violence in order to recreate the self hearkens back to the ‘fiery zeale’ of the universal conflagration.
- Prior to Election Day, there was a widespread belief that the outcome of the 2000 Election was a fluke, an aberration, that would correct itself, as a sort of natural purgative process, in 2004.
- What's really troubling about someone like Eminem is the very purgative nature of art.
- The savage stomping dance; the primitive, purgative rite; a music of cosmic rigour - you don't have to go far from the Cité de la Musique to find glaring precedents.
- Some of them prime your emotions, setting you up for a let down or a purgative, thundering crash.
Synonyms purging, purifying, cleansing, cleaning, releasing, relieving, freeing, delivering, exorcising, ridding
nounˈpərɡədivˈpərɡədɪv 1A laxative. Example sentencesExamples - He advocated enemas, emetics, purgatives and sneezing powders.
- Mercury, a purgative to clean the system, and quinine, to treat fever, can cause malaria and typhus sufferers to have symptoms that mimic typhoid and dysentery.
- It is considered a purgative, or a drink to help digestion.
- He rejected other common medical practices of his day such as purgatives and emetics with opium and mercury-based calomel.
- Hippocrates attributed ‘hysteria’ to a woman's uterus, and blamed ‘melancholia’ on black bile, which he attempted to treat with purgatives.
- Castor Oil Plant, while the plant is poisonous, the expressed thick, viscid oil is used as a powerful laxative and purgative.
- Its low-calorie and high calcium content, and supposed medicinal benefits as a purgative, have brought a new generation of eaters.
- Medicinal rhubarbs, as a purgative, are among the most important drug plants of all time.
- Mild oily purgatives like castor oil or bulk laxatives such as linseed or psyllium seeds are recommended.
- His mother then confessed to inducing the colitis with purgatives and twice giving him salt solutions nasogastrically.
- Among the more traditional remedies for plague fever were the various organic purgatives, including phlebotomy, diaphoretics, diuretics, emetics, and laxatives.
- In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings!
- Napoleon had been treated for a long time with tartar emetics, and the day he died he had been given a huge dose of calomer as a purgative.
- Some of its other traditional uses have been as a mild purgative for chronic constipation and for the treatment of swollen glands.
- Triphala is widely regarded as a purgative and laxative but in fact it is considered a rasayana and rejuvenator.
- Purgatives should be taken on an empty stomach.
- Still, many people, obsessed with their bowels, continue to swell the profits of pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies by consuming purgatives regularly.
- Rush had given Lewis a list of rules for preserving health, which included prescription of purgatives.
- Emphasizing elimination through the overuse of purgatives in an already deficient individual can further deplete the body's store of minerals and essential B vitamins as well as imbalance beneficial intestinal micro-organisms.
- In India, Nigella seeds are combined with various purgatives to allay gripping and colic and also help kill and expel parasites.
Synonyms laxative, enema, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant - 1.1 A thing that rids someone of unwanted feelings or memories.
confrontation would be a purgative
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French purgatif, -ive, from late Latin purgativus, from purgat- ‘purified’, from the verb purgare (see purge). |