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cathartic (adj.)
1610s, of medicines, from Latin
catharticus
, from Greek
kathartikos
"fit for cleansing, purgative," from
katharsis
"purging, cleansing" (see
catharsis
). General sense is from 1670s. Related:
Cathartical
.
