Definition of "discutient"

discutient

adjective
comparative more discutient, superlative most discutient
1. (medicine) Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive.
  Quotations
  The Lips of the Abſceſs digeſted vvell, but from vvithin it onely gleeted, and thruſt out Fat, vvhich vve daily cut off vvithout the loſs of a drop of blood, and dreſſed up the Abſceſs vvith mundif. ex apio, continuing the uſe of diſcutient Fomentations and Cataplaſms.
  1676, Richard Wiseman, “The First Book. A Treatise of Tumours. Chapter XVIII. Of an Oedema.”, in Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], page 89
noun
plural discutients
1. An agent, such as a medicinal application, that serves to disperse morbid matter.
  Quotations
  The next day I fomented vvith Diſcutients, to vvhich vvas added ſpir. vini.
  1676, Richard Wiseman, “The First Book. A Treatise of Tumours. Chapter XV. Of an Ecchymosis.”, in Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], page 69