chalastic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek χαλαστικός (khalastikós).

Adjective[edit]

chalastic (comparative more chalastic, superlative most chalastic)

  1. (medicine) Reducing stiffness; laxative.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 5, member 3, subsection 1:
      Octavius Horatianus, lib. 2, cap. 5, prescribes chalastic cataplasms, or dry purging medicines […]
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