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Word Meanings - PURGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ESPECIALLY
    In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
  • 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
  • MEDICINE
    A physician. Shak. Medicine bag, a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them. -- Medicine man , a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of
  • CATHARTIC; CATHARICAL
    Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative. 2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.
  • ANACATHARTIC
    Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n.
  • EMETO-CATHARTIC
    Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
  • SUGGESTIVE MEDICINE
    Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.
  • CATO-CATHARTIC
    A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

 

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