dejectory
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin dejector (“a dejecter”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dejectory (comparative more dejectory, superlative most dejectory)
- Having power, or tending, to cast down.
- Promoting evacuations by stool.
- 1994, Donald Beecher, transl., A Treatise on Lovesickness:
- The physician should devote himself to this during several days so that the humor can be easily evacuated by dejectory medications
References
[edit]“dejectory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.