Meaning of aperient | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a gentle laxative effect.
2. Serving to open or reveal.

Examples

“[T]ouching the much vexed question of stimulants he relished a glass of choice old wine in season as both nourishing and bloodmaking and possessing aperient virtues (notably a good burgundy which he was a staunch believer in) […]”

“Is it really more knowledge we want, or more understanding? Are we in fact clavigerous and fail to realize the aperient properties of that which is in our hand?”

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