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Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic.
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The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.
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A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.
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A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
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A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
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Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.
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An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.
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A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).
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A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.
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