minorative

Etymology
From the late-,, from. Equivalent to. Compare the post-Classical (i.e. 9th C.) 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) That diminishes or attenuates
 * 2)  Gently.
 * 3) * 1543, Bartholomew Traheron (translator), Joannes de Vigo (author), The Most Excellent Workes of Chirurgerye, book IX, addendum, page 225:
 * Clysters sometymes do supplye the rowme of minoratyve medicines.
 * 1) * 1747, Jean Astruc (author; translator unknown), Academical Lectures on Fevers, page 112:
 * Nothing but minorative apozems should be ordered.

Noun

 * 1)  A gently laxative.
 * 2) * 1633, James Hart, Κλινική; or, The Diet of the Diseased, book III, chapter xiv, page 284:
 * When wee feare lest nature faint before perfect concoction, we may sometimes use a gentle minorative.
 * 1) * 1747, Jean Astruc (author; translator unknown), Academical Lectures on Fevers, page 232:
 * Others give minoratives more frequently.