a. and sb. [a. F. évacuatif, -ive, f. évacuer, ad. L. ēvacuāre: see EVACUATE and -IVE.]

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  A.  adj. That evacuates or empties (the bowels); cathartic, purgative, evacuant.

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1611.  Cotgr., Evacuatif, euacuatiue; purgative.

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1828.  in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.

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  B.  sb. An evacuative medicine; an evacuant.

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1656.  Ridgley, Pract. Physick, 50. Palliative is made … by evacuatives and alteratives.

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