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† vomitive, a. and n. Obs.
Also 7 vomitif, womitive; 6 Sc. womatiue, 7–8 vomative.
[a. F. vomitif, -ive (= Sp., Pg., It. vomitivo), ad. med.L. *vomitīv-us: see vomit v. and -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Of medicines, etc.: Causing vomiting; vomitory; emetic.
1580Well of Woman Hill, Aberdeen a 2 b, To vtheris it is womatiue. 1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 142 Being therein helped by certaine vomitive pils. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xii. 337 From this vitriolous quality Mercuries dulcis, and vitriol vomitive occasion black ejections. 1682Hist. Thee in Harl. Misc. l. 532 Now Thee itself, when given in a large dose,..does often prove vomitive. 1725Sloane Jamaica II. 186 These nuts grow in Jamaica; they are not vomitive,..but called and eaten as Wallnuts. 1754Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 846 [Antimony] being in substance most violently vomitive.
2. Of or pertaining to vomiting.
1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. Ep. Rdr. 10 The true preparation of all Vegetals, takes away..the vomitive quality of them, except only in Opium. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. viii. 189 That Vomitive faculty, of Antimonial Glass. a1691― Hist. Air (1692) 233 Antimonium Diaphoreticum, being kept some Years,..acquir'd a Vomitive Quality.
B. n. An emetic; = vomitory n. 1.
1611Cotgr., Vomitif, a Vomitiue, or Vomitorie; any thing that prouokes vomiting. 1677A. Horneck Gt. Law Consid. vii. (1704) 422 Physicians..make him sicker than he is..by vomitives. 1697Phil. Trans. XIX. 403 They gave her also Vomitives and Deobstruents. 1728Chambers Cycl., The Ipecacuanha..is also a gentle Vomitive. 1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 71 The second indication is to evacuate the morbid humour by vomitives or purgatives, or a cathartico⁓emetic. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 337 Vomits may be rendered purgatives, and purges vomitives.
fig.1685Gracian's Courtier's Orac. 192 Slowness in believing is a Vomitive that brings up secrets. |