evacuatory

English

Etymology

From evacuate +‎ -ory.

Adjective

evacuatory

1. Pertaining to evacuation, especially evacuation of the gastrointestinal tract.
   • 1973, I.G. Krasnykh, L. A. Tyutin, “Influence of Certain Radioprotective Preparations on the Motor-Evacuatory Function of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Healthy and Irradiated Rats”, in P.P. Saksonov, B.I. Davydov, editor, Problems of Space Biology, page 95:

     Consequently, disruption of the evacuatory function of the stomach during the first few days after introduction of cystamine and irradiation was more pronounce than when these factors acted separately.

   • 2006, Richard Mizen, Mark Morris, On Aggression and Violence: An Analytic Perspective:

     We have located the origins and mechanisms of violence in the violating unbearable affective experience, which occurs as a consequence of failures of attunement or affective containment and in the projective, evacuatory psychological defences that then arise.

   • 2010, Andrew P. Zbar, Steven D. Wexner, Coloproctology, page 139:

     Evacuatory dysfunction may be due to mechanical obstruction or functional etiologies or impaired rectal sensation.

Noun

evacuatory (plural evacuatories)

1. (archaic) A purgative; a laxative.

References

• “evacuatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.