excretive

English

Etymology

From excrete +‎ -ive.

Adjective

excretive (not comparable)

1. Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion.

   Synonym: excretory

   • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:

     in their excretive faculty in evacuating the excrementicious humours

References

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