PURGATIVE Copy link • PURGATIVEmedicamentum catharticum: medicina alvum solvens or movens. To administer purgatives, cathartica dare: a purgative must be administered, or one must take a purgative, dejectio a medicamento petenda est: to try to give relief by purgatives, to administer a purgative, dejectionem alvi ductione moliri; purgatione alvum sollicitare: to take a purgative, alvum dejicere (of the effect); *alvum medicamento cathartico movere, solvere.