a. Med. [a. F. colliquatif, -tive (Pare), f. L. colliquāt- (see prec.) + -IVE.] Having the power or effect of liquefying or dissolving. Applied to profuse discharges which cause the body to waste away, or to diseases characterized by such discharges; as colliquative diarrhœa, sweat, fever. (Cf. COLLIQUATION 3 b.)
1666. G. Harvey, Morb. Angl. (1672), 6. A burning colliquative Feaver.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., IV. 124. A colliquative, sharp and hot Flux.
1791. Edin. New Disp., 528. The colliquative sweats attending hectic fevers.
1871. Sir T. Watson, Princ. Physic (ed. 5), II. 220. [The patient] appears to melt away under the influence of the purging, which is therefore said to be colliquative.
