depurative

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English

Etymology

Compare French dépuratif.

Adjective

depurative (comparative more depurative, superlative most depurative)

  1. (medicine) Purifying the blood or humours; depuratory.

Derived terms

Noun

depurative (plural depuratives)

  1. Any depurative remedy or agent.
  2. Any disease that is depurative.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for depurative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Adjective

depurative

  1. feminine plural of depurativo

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