English
evacuative
From evacuate + -ive.
Formed from evacuate + -ive
Latin vacuō ‘make empty’
Latin ēvacuō ‘to empty out, evacuate’
Latin ēvacuātus ‘emptied out’
English evacuate
Today it means
adj That causes evacuation; cathartic; purgative.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / evacuative