DRASTIC
\dɹˈastɪk], \dɹˈastɪk], \d_ɹ_ˈa_s_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of DRASTIC
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
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Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; - opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
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A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
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Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; - opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Drasticus, Cenotic, (F.) Drastiquc, from 'I operate strongly.' Active. An epithet given to purgatives, which operate powerfully; as elaterium, oil of croton, &c.
By Robley Dunglison