sorbefacient

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English

Etymology

From Latin sorbere (“to suck in, absorb”) + faciens, p.pr. of facere (“to make”).

Adjective

sorbefacient (comparative more sorbefacient, superlative most sorbefacient)

  1. (medicine) Producing absorption.

Noun

sorbefacient (plural sorbefacients)

  1. A medicine or substance that produces absorption.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sorbefacient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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