solutive

Meaning

Adjective

• Tending to produce relaxation (as of the bowels); having laxative properties.
• loosening (of strictness of contractual terms), through gradual dissolution of binding obligations (as of a previously agreed-upon contract)

Origin

• Medieval Latin solutivus, from Latin solutus (the past participle of solvere) + (from the Latin suffix -ivus). Compare French solutif.