a. [f. L. excrēt- (see EXCRETE v.) + -IVE, repr. L. type *excrētīvus.] Having the power or function of excreting or promoting excretion.
1666. C. Harvey, Morb. Angl., 15. Some … fault in the Excretive faculty of the parts.
1673. Lister, in Phil. Trans., VIII. 6062. Excretive glanduls.
1707. Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 240. It has a nutritive,… excretive, expulsive Faculty.
1775. in Ash; and in mod. Dicts.
