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单词 lambitive
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lambitiveadj.n.

Forms: Also 1600s–1700s lambative, lambetive.
Etymology: < modern Latin lambitīvum (= B. below), < lambĕre to lick: see -ive suffix.
Obsolete.
A. adj.
Of medicines: Taken by licking up with the tongue.
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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.
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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.
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