anacathartic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“to cleanse upward, i.e. by vomiting”). See cathartic.
Noun
anacathartic (plural anacathartics)
- An expectorant or emetic medicine.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “anacathartic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)