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suppurative, a. and n.|ˈsʌpjʊərətɪv|
Also 6 -yfe.
[ad. mod.L. suppūrātīvus, f. suppūrāt-: see suppurate v. and -ive. Cf. F. suppuratif (from 16th c.), It., Pg. suppurativo, Sp. supurativo.]
A. adj.
1. Having the property of causing suppuration; inducing the formation of pus.
1541[see suppuration 1]. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 705 It is meet to vse a suppuratiue and not a gluttinatiue maner of cure. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. i. (1734) 23 Rye... It's chief Service is in suppurative and discutient Charges or Cataplasms. 1760–72J. Adams tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 46 A small suppurative plaister. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) IV. 404 Those irritant, exulcerant, or suppurative applications, which have been employed by many practitioners.
2. Attended or characterized by suppuration.
1794J. R. Coxe Ess. Inflamm. 54 Mr. John Hunter has divided inflammation into the adhesive, the suppurative, and the ulcerative. 1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 61/2 This suppurative sloughing process had opened a passage..into the..colon. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 621 Suppurative catarrh of the middle ear.
B. n. A medicine or preparation which promotes suppuration.
1568G. Skeyne The Pest (1860) 40 Gif the humore be malignant,..suppuratiues most be expede [sic]. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xvi. 368 Suppuratives..bring blood, raw, superfluous and undigested humours to matter and ripeness. 1766Phil. Trans. LVI. 93 Strong suppuratives, in the form of cataplasms, were now used. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) III. 508 Increasing the tone of the vessels, by warm suppuratives and astringents. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 292 Fagonia arabica,..this plant has a great reputation in India as a suppurative in the cases of abscess. |