Crossword-Solution: CATHARTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cathartic | a. | Alt. of Catharical |
| Cathartic | n. | A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “CATHARTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Liberating act newly-formed charity almost bungled | 1 answer |
| Effecting a release | 1 answer |
| Emotionally purging | 1 answer |
| Releasing pent emotions | 1 answer |
| lapactic | 1 answer |
| castor oil | 4 answers |
| diuretic | 5 answers |
| emptying | 5 answers |
| evacuant | 5 answers |
| CASCARA sagrada | 6 answers |
| paraffin emulsion | 9 answers |
| Emetic | 9 answers |
| senna | 9 answers |
| APERIENT | 13 answers |
| Paraffin | 14 answers |
| Purifier | 15 answers |
| laxative | 15 answers |
| physic | 16 answers |
| Emulsion | 18 answers |
| purgative | 19 answers |
| Cleanser. | 23 answers |
| Rhubarb | 24 answers |
| Cleansing | 35 answers |
| MEDICINAL herb, classification of | 38 answers |
| Purge | 45 answers |
| Medicine ____ | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CATHARTIC (5)
See Asarone.] (Bot.) An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europ‘um), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic.
And, thank Heaven, this effect HAS been produced in very many instances, and that the “Catherine” cathartic has acted most efficaciously.
Sublime sickness; during which all Paris wept aloud, in terror and sorrow, like a child that has lost its mother and sees a mastiff coming; wept sublimely, and did the Prayers of Forty-Hours; and called King Louis Le BIEN-AIME (The Well-beloved):--merely some obstruction in the royal bowels, it turned out;--a good cathartic, and the Prayers of Forty-Hours, quite reinstated matters.
Thirdly, with respect to what passed at Mr Kendal’s table, when the said Lismahago was so brutal in his reprehensions, I must inform you, my good Sir, that I was obliged to retire, not by fear arising from his minatory reproaches, which, as I said above, I value not of a rush; but from the sudden effect produced, by a barbel’s row, which I had eaten at dinner, not knowing, that the said row is at certain seasons violently cathartic, as Galen observeth in his chapter Peri ichtos.
From the entire practical experience of religion, what survives is the liturgy, transformed into a performance of limited cathartic impact.
Quotes with CATHARTIC (3)
A psychiatrist on the Baader-Meinhof gang: „They seek salvation in a paranoia that blinds them to reality, because they believe everything that surrounds them is an evil machination”. On this point they are not blind. Man cannot, however, look upon the underlying evil and thus cannot escape the punishment of total blindness and corruption meted out to all except inspired seers, and especially those athletes who have overcome evil and been immunized before approaching the visi…
Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.
My friend asked me if it had been cathartic, to write my memoir. I looked down at the sculptures — it was cathartic for me to look at them, but I could imagine it might have been hell to make them (I was cheered / when I came first to know / that there were flowers also / in hell). No, I answered — how was it for you to read it? Aristotle, in his Poetics, never promised catharsis for the makers of art, only for the audience.
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Used 2 times in crossword archives (2006–2015).