Definition of Expellents

1. expellent [n] - See also: expellent

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expellents

expeditive
expeditor
expeditors
expel
expeled
expelee
expelees
expeling
expellable
expellant
expellants
expelled
expellee
expellees
expellent
expellents (current term)
expeller
expellers
expelleth
expelling
expellings
expels
expence
expences
expencive
expend
expendabilities
expendability
expendable
expendables

Literary usage of Expellents

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"... or expellents of water, embrace which may medicines of all kinds that act powerfully on any of the gatives, ..."

2. A Handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1882)
"It ppears, then, that they are mere expellents from the intestines, 3t eliminators of effete material from the blood, although, ..."

3. A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus, and Other Naturalists, from by James Edward Smith, Carl von Linné (1821)
"These acrid substances, taken in a smaller dose, are denominated expellents; and if applied outwardly, repellents ; because our nature tries to avoid, ..."

4. The Theory and Practice of Medicine by Frederick Thomas Roberts (1880)
"... or those which influence the bile-secreting mechanism ; and (b) bile expellents, which increase the expulsion of bile by stimulating muscular ..."

5. Homoeopathy simplified; or, Domestic practice made easy: Containing Explicit by John Adams Tarbell (1866)
"This is not to be accomplished by violent expellents, since they often accumulate as fast as they are removed, but by correcting the secretions referred to, ..."

6. Homoeopathy Simplified; Or, Domestic Practice Made Easy.: Containing by John Adams Tarbell (1856)
"This is not to be accomplished by violent expellents, since they often accumulate as fast as they are removed, but by correcting the secretions referred to, ..."

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