a. and sb. [ad. L. ēlīminānt-em, pr. pple. of ēlīmināre: see next.]
A. adj. Expulsive; having power to throw off by the excretions (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1876. Bartholow, Mat. Med. (1879), 262. The curative power … is … due to its eliminant action on the mucous and cutaneous surfaces.
B. sb. The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree.
1881. Burnside & Panton, Theor. Equations, xiii. (1886), § 140. 318. The quantity R is … called their Resultant or Eliminant.
1885. Athenæum, 11 April, 477/3. Eliminants and Associated Roots.
