dejectory

English

Etymology

Latin dejector (“a dejecter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈdʒɛktəɹi/

Adjective

dejectory (comparative more dejectory, superlative most dejectory)

1. Having power, or tending, to cast down.
2. 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

“dejectory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.