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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ECCOPROTIC

a.[Gr. out or from, and stercus.] Having the quality of promoting alvine discharges; laxative; loosening; gently cathartic.

 

ECCOPROTIC

n.A medicine which purges gently, or which tends to promote evacuations by stool; a mild cathartic.