Word Meanings - PURGAMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cathartic; a purgative. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which is excreted; excretion.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PURGATIVELY
  In a purgative manner.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• EXCRETA
  Matters to be excreted.
• CATHARTIC
  A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity. Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and
• EXCRETORY
  Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
• EXCRETE
  To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.
• EXCRETION
  1. The act of excreting. To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira. 2. That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon.
• EXCRETIVE
  Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey.
• CATHARTIC; CATHARICAL
  Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative. 2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.
• PURGATIVE
  Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic. -- n.
• EXCRETIN
  A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.
• ANACATHARTIC
  Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n.
• EMETO-CATHARTIC
  Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
• CATO-CATHARTIC
  A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.