Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mildly laxative: applied to certain medicines.
- noun A mildly laxative medicine.
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Examples
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I let pass how for a minorative or gentle potion he took four hundred pound weight of colophoniac scammony, six score and eighteen cartloads of cassia, an eleven thousand and nine hundred pound weight of rhubarb, besides other confuse jumblings of sundry drugs.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I let pass how for a minorative or gentle potion he took four hundred pound weight of colophoniac scammony, six score and eighteen cartloads of cassia, an eleven thousand and nine hundred pound weight of rhubarb, besides other confuse jumblings of sundry drugs.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I let pass how for a minorative or gentle potion he took four hundred pound weight of colophoniac scammony, six score and eighteen cartloads of cassia, an eleven thousand and nine hundred pound weight of rhubarb, besides other confuse jumblings of sundry drugs.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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