excretive
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editexcretive (not comparable)
- Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion.
- Synonym: excretory
- 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
- in their excretive faculty in evacuating the excrementicious humours
References
edit- “excretive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.