Depurative

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  • adj. Purifying the blood or humours; depuratory.
  • n. Any depurative remedy or agent.
  • n. Any disease that is believed to be depurative.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Cleansing; tending to or connected with the removal of impurities.
  • n. That which cleanses or purifies; specifically, in medicine, formerly, a remedy supposed to purify the blood or humors.
  • Word Usage
    "Others regarded it as a mucous discharge, or a depurative; and others, as a salutary crisis, removing from the constitution that which oppressed the different organs."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    depuratory