Also 7 -er. [f. EVACUATE + -OR.] One who or that which evacuates (in the senses of the verb).
1611. Cotgr., Vuideur, a voyder, emptier, euacuater.
a. 1660. Hammond, Wks., I. 175 (T.). Be not too busy … in excusing the great evacuators of the Law.
1696. J. Edwards, Demonstr. Exist. & Provid. God, II. 99. The ears are the evacuators of the bilious excrement that flows thither.
1718. Quincy, Compl. Disp., 63. The whole Materia Medica is certainly to be included under … Alteratives, Evacuators, and Restoratives.
1828. in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
