chalastic
Reducing stiffness; laxative.
Adjective
- Reducing stiffness; laxative.
- Octavius Horatianus, lib. 2, cap. 5, prescribes chalastic cataplasms, or dry purging medicines […] - 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire:...
Origin
From Ancient Greek χαλαστικός (khalastikós).