˜yÐÄvlog

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expellant

or ±ð³æ·±è±ð±ô·±ô±ð²Ô³Ù

[ ik-spel-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. expelling, or having the power to expel.


expellant

/ ɪ°ìˈ²õ±èÉ›±ôÉ™²Ô³Ù /

adjective

  1. forcing out or having the capacity to force out
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a medicine used to expel undesirable substances or organisms from the body, esp worms from the digestive tract
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of expellant1

1815–25; variant of expellent ( -ant ) < Latin expellent- (stem of ±ð³æ±è±ð±ô±ôŧ²Ô²õ ), present participle of expellere to expel; -ent
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Example Sentences

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One late sixteenth-century commentator on America recommended it as a purge for superfluous phlegm; and smokers believed it functioned as an antidote for poisons, as an expellant for "sour" humors, and as a healer of wounds.

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Into willing Mussulman ears he poured a tirade of abuse, typical of the epoch and the nation he represented: ... proh si scires quam morbosum, quam pestiferum; quamque contagiosum pecus istud de quo loqueris sit, tactu omnia fedant, visu corrumpunt sermone destruunt, divina et humana preturbant, inficiunt, prostrant miseros vicinos circumveniunt, radicitus expellant, funestant; ubicumque pecunias esse presentiunt, tamquam odori canes insequunt; detegunt, effundiunt, per mendacia, perjuria, dolos insidias per litas, si catera non seppelunt, extorquere illas laborant: aliena miseria, dolore, gemitu, mestitia gaudent.

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