a. [f. L. ēgest- (see EGEST v.) + -IVE.] Pertaining to, or connected with, the process of egestion.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., III. vi. 276. They have the digestive, egestive, and other parts of the Nutritive Faculty.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 69/1. Less activity is indicated in the egestive than in the ingestive system.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., i. 50. In the Porifera, the terminal aperture of the gastræa becomes the egestive opening of the adult.
