CATHARTIC,
CATHARTICAL, adjective Purging; cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
CATHARTIC, noun A medicine that promotes alvine discharges, and thus cleanses the stomach and bowels; a purge; a purgative.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.