Colliquative

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Melting; dissolving; fusing.
  • In medicine, profuse or excessive in flow, so as to cause exhaustion; wasting: as, a colliquative sweat (a profuse clammy sweat); colliquative diarrhea.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of, pertaining to, or causing colliquation; liquefactive
  • Word Usage
    "When in these cases there is a colliquative diarrhoea, I am of opinion that we ought to give the colder and thicker ptisans, and that the drinks ought to be binding, of a vinous nature, and rather astringent."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    melting