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chalastic

chalastic adjective: reducing stiffness; laxative.

Adjective

chalastic (comparative more chalastic, superlative most chalastic)

  1. 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: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section...

Forms of chalastic

comparativemore chalastic
superlativemost chalastic

Origin of chalastic

From Ancient Greek χαλαστικός (khalastikós).

Questions about chalastic

What does chalastic mean?
Chalastic means reducing stiffness; laxative.
What part of speech is chalastic?
Chalastic is an adjective.

Words near chalastic in the dictionary

  1. chalans
  2. chalant
  3. chalantly
  4. chalara
  5. chalasia
  6. chalastic
  7. Chalatenango
  8. chalav stam
  9. chalav yisrael
  10. chalaza
  11. chalazae

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