chalastic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek χαλαστικός (khalastikós).
Adjective
[edit]chalastic (comparative more chalastic, superlative most chalastic)
- (medicine) Reducing stiffness; laxative.
- 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 5, member 3, subsection 1:
- Octavius Horatianus, lib. 2, cap. 5, prescribes chalastic cataplasms, or dry purging medicines […]