Talk:aperient
Please consider augmenting the definition of the word "aperient." In the Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," on page xxiii of the Introduction we find the following footnote: "It is an aperient book, if I may use the phrase. I have never forgotten the effect it produced on me when I was an undergraduate."
In this case the context would suggest "revelatory" as the meaning, not just "laxative," which would seem to be in keeping with the Latin aperient-, present participle of aperire "to open."
Since I am not an expert in this field, I readily defer to the judgment of those who are.
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