a. and sb. [f. L. sorbē-re to absorb + -FACIENT.] a. adj. Causing or promoting absorption. b. sb. A substance or preparation causing absorption.
1847. in Webster.
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 138. Remedies which have been supposed to act as sorbefacients are mercury and iodine.
