单词 | lambitive |
释义 | † lambitiveadj.n. Obsolete. A. adj. Of medicines: Taken by licking up with the tongue. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > other miscellaneous medicines > [adjective] > to be licked lambitive1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. viii. 198 In affections both of Lungs and weazon, Physitians make use of syrupes, and lambitive medicines. View more context for this quotation 1696 J. Edwards Demonstr. Existence God ii. iii. 44 Lohocs and the like lambitive Medicines for Distempers in the Lungs. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 266. ⁋3 Upon the Mantle Tree..stood a Pot of Lambetive Electuary. B. n. A medicine so taken. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > syrup or linctus > [noun] lectuary?c1225 electuary1398 syrup1398 lohoch?1543 condite1583 licking-medicine1597 eclegme1606 lincture1621 lambitive1656 lingencea1661 linctus1681 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked lxxxvi. §818 Lambatives, or medicines to bee lickt in. 1671 J. Blagrave Astrol. Pract. Physick 87 These lambetives are usually taken with a liquorish stick. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xiv. 479 Some Physicians do ill in prescribing Lambitives at the first visit. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 273 I have utterly denied the immediate descent of Lambatives into the Lungs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1646 |
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