laxative
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French laxatif, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin laxātīvus (literally “relaxing, loosening”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
laxative (comparative more laxative, superlative most laxative)
- Having the effect of moving the bowels, or aiding digestion and preventing constipation.
- 1624, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Making Bolus”, in The Method of Physick, Contaning[sic] the Cavses, Signes, and Cvres of Inward Diseases in Mans Body, from the Head to the Foote. Whereunto is Added, The Forme and Rule of Making Remedies and Medicines, which Our Physitions Commonly Vse at this Day, with the Proportion, Quantity, and Names of Each Medicine, 6th edition, book VII, London: Imprinted by Richard Field, dwelling in great Woodstreete, →OCLC, page 397:
- Bolvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme and faſhion it is meanely whole, and it is ſwallowed by little gobbets.
Translations
causing movement of the bowels
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See also
- minorative (“gently laxative”)
Noun
laxative (plural laxatives)
- Any substance, such as a food or in the form of a medicine which has a laxative effect.
Coordinate terms
- diuretic — urination
Translations
substance with a laxative effect
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See also
- minorative (“a gentle laxative”)
French
Adjective
laxative
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