Bible Dictionaries
Drastic

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; - opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.

(2):

(n.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Drastic'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/drastic.html. 1828.