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AnacatharticAnacathartic An`a*ca*thar"tic, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to cleanse
upward, i. e., by vomiting; ? + ?. See Cathartic.] (Med.)
Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n. An anacathartic
medicine; an expectorant or an emetic. Catharical
Cathartic Ca*thar"tic, Catharical Ca*thar"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?,
fr. ? to cleanse, fr. ? pure; akin to F. chaste.]
1. (Med.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by
stool; purgative.
2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as
cathartic acid.
Catharine wheelCatherine wheel Cath"er*ine wheel` [So called from St.
Catherine of Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in
allusion to her martyrdom.]
1. (Geoth.Arth.) Same as Rose window and Wheel window.
Called also Catherine-wheel window.
2. (Pyrotechny) A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in
form the window of the same name. [Written also Catharine
wheel.] CatharistCatharist Cath"a*rist, n. [LL. catharista, fr. Gr. ? clean,
pure.]
One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than
others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See
Albigenses. Catharsis
Catharsis Ca*thar"sis, n. (Psychotherapy)
The process of relieving an abnormal excitement by
re["e]stablishing the association of the emotion with the
memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and of
eliminating it by complete expression (called the
abreaction).
CatharsisCatharsis Ca*thar"sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Cathartic.]
(Med.)
A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the
mouth, bowels, etc. Cathartic
Cathartic Ca*thar"tic, Catharical Ca*thar"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?,
fr. ? to cleanse, fr. ? pure; akin to F. chaste.]
1. (Med.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by
stool; purgative.
2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as
cathartic acid.
CatharticCathartic Ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ?.] (Med.)
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a
purgative of moderate activity.
Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action
that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency
to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint
that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated,
and watery evacuations. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. --
Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n. cathartic acidcathartin ca*thar"tin, n. (Chem.)
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside
with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
acid, and cathartina. CatharticallyCathartic Ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ?.] (Med.)
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a
purgative of moderate activity.
Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action
that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency
to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint
that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated,
and watery evacuations. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. --
Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n. CatharticalnessCathartic Ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ?.] (Med.)
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a
purgative of moderate activity.
Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action
that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency
to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint
that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated,
and watery evacuations. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. --
Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n. cathartincathartin ca*thar"tin, n. (Chem.)
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside
with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
acid, and cathartina. cathartinacathartin ca*thar"tin, n. (Chem.)
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside
with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
acid, and cathartina. Cathay
Cathay Ca*thay", n.
China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have
been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the
Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the
Khitans.)
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
--Tennyson.
Cato-catharticCato-cathartic Cat`o-ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ? down + ? serving
to purge. See Cathartic.] (Med.)
A remedy that purges by alvine discharges. Emeto-cathartic
Emeto-cathartic Em`e*to-ca*thar"tic, a. [Gr. ? vomiting + E.
cathartic.] (Med.)
Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
L catharticumPurging Pur"ging, a.
That purges; cleansing.
Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus
Linum (L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so called
from its use as a cathartic medicine. R catharticusRhamnus Rham"nus, n. [NL., from Gr. "ra`mnos a kind of prickly
shrub; cf. L. rhamnos.] (Bot.)
A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California
Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are
used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges. Rhamnus catharticusSap Sap, n. [AS. s[ae]p; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel.
safi; of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to
taste, to be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf.
Sapid, Sapient.]
1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending
and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to
nutrition.
Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of
which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the
elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant.
2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang]
Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus.
See Polyporus.
Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the
juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or
buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.
Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry.
Sap sucker (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small
American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus,
especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of
the Eastern United States. They are so named because they
puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name
is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.
Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.
Meaning of Catha from wikipedia
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Catha may
refer to:
Catha (plant), a
plant genus Catha (mythology), an
Etruscan goddess Katha (disambiguation) This
disambiguation page
lists articles...
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other symbols instead of
Ethiopic characters. Khat or qat,
Catha edulis (Amharic: α«α΅ chβat; Oromo: Jimaa, Somali: qaad, jaat,
khaad or khat...
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goddess who
takes the form of a crow, and is thus
sometimes known as Badb
Catha ("battle crow"). She is
known to
cause fear and
confusion among soldiers...
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genus are accepted.
Catha abbottii (A.E.van Wyk & M.Prins)
Catha edulis (Vahl) Forssk. ex Endl., most
commonly known as khat
Catha transvaalensis (Codd)...
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Catha (Etruscan: ππππ, romanized:Β
Catha, also
written πππ, Cath, πππππ, Cautha, or πππ
ππ, Kavtha) is a
female Etruscan lunar or solar...
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Fuaim Catha is an anarcho-punk album, by the band Oi Polloi. It was
released in 1999 on
Skuld Records.
Fuaim Catha means 'Sound of Battle' in the Scottish...
- benzoyle****ine, or Ξ²-keto-amphetamine) is a
monoamine alkaloid found in the
shrub Catha edulis (khat) and is
chemically similar to ephedrine, cathine, methcathinone...
- most
important text
regarding the
family of Finn (son of ****aill) is
Fotha Catha Chnucha ("The
Cause of the
Battle of Cnucha"), as it is
contained in the...
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Treatise on
Irish metrics, on Finn as one of
twelve famous poets.
Fotha Catha Cnucha (Lebor na ****dre) Poem "Finn and the Phantoms" Poem on the birth...
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derive from
these priests. He had two
female partners: his
Etruscan consort Catha (or Cavatha),
goddess of Moon and Underworld; and his
Faliscan sister-in-law...
