medicinaladj.n.

Brit.

/mᵻˈdɪsn̩(ə)l/,

/mᵻˈdɪsᵻn(ə)l/, U.S.

/məˈdɪsən(ə)l/,

/mɛˈdɪsn(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English medecinale, Middle English medecynal, Middle English medicinel, Middle English medicynal, Middle English medycinal, Middle English medycineal, Middle English medycynal, Middle English–1500s medicinalle, Middle English–1500s medicynall, Middle English–1500s medycynall, Middle English– medicinal, 1500s medecynall, 1500s medicional, 1500s–1600s medecinall, 1500s–1600s medicinall, 1600s medcinal, 1600s med'cinal, 1600s med'cinall, 1600s–1700s med'c'nal; Scottish pre-1700 medecinall, pre-1700 medicinale, pre-1700 medicinall, pre-1700 medicionell, pre-1700 1700s– medicinal.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French medicinal; Latin medicīnālis.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French medicinal, medecinal healing, curative (1326; c1200 in this sense in Picard texts; late 12th cent. in Old French as noun denoting a remedy; French médicinal ), relating to medicine (late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman designating a book; c1485 in Middle French), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin medicīnālis of or relating to medicine (in post-classical Latin also ‘healing’, from early 3rd cent. in Tertullian; see also note below) < medicīna medicine n.¹ + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan medecinal (noun) remedy (c1150), medicinal (adjective) healing, curative (c1300), Italian medicinale (adjective) healing, curative (a1304), (noun) remedy (1618).Post-classical Latin medicinalis is used also in a figurative sense with reference to spiritual healing (5th cent.), and the neuter plural, medicinalia , is used as a noun to denote spiritual remedies (5th cent.), medicinal substances (from 13th cent. in British sources), and medicine as an academic discipline (14th cent. in a British source). With medicinal science , medicinal art (see sense A. 2a) compare classical Latin ars medicīnālis (title of work by Celsus), Middle French art medicinal (c1485). For medicinal finger see etymological note s.v. medical adj. Johnson gives pronunciations with stress on the penultimate syllable as well as the antepenultimate. Walker adduces a number of authorities in favour of the latter and casts much doubt on the former. A trisyllabic pronunciation, with elision of the second syllable and probably with stress on the first syllable, is attested by 17th- and 18th-cent. spellings such as med'cinal, medcinal.

A. adj.

a. Having or designating healing or curative properties or attributes (with against, for); therapeutic; used as a medicine; of or relating to medicines; involving the use of medicines.Quot. a1384 has also been taken as a use of the noun (see N.E.D.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective]

medicinala1384

wholesomea1387

healinga1398

medicinablea1398

restorativea1398

sanative14..

curatory?a1425

remediable1437

mildlya1475

curable1483

recurablea1500

curative1525

eradicative1543

good1580

physical1580

medicable1590

sanable1598

balsamic1605

therapeutical1606

medicinary1607

medicative1644

medical1646

therapeutic1646

salutary1649

salvative1653

boethetic1656

medicamentary1656

recuperatory1656

sanitating1656

medicamental1657

medicamentous1659

medicating1705

balmy1747

salving1751

sanatorya1832

salubrious1855

medicatory1864

recuperative1872

a1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) Apoc. iii. 18 Anoynte thin iȝen with colirie, [glossed] that is medicynal for yȝen, maad of diuerse erbis.

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 124 (MED) Þai say it [sc. olive oil] es soueraynly medecinale.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) l. 8 Ysope is a medicynall erbe.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 245 Medycinal Purgacions sholde bene y-makyd..of thynges that Purgyth malencolie.

1525 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. viii. 214 It may be by the College considerid whether the bill were medecynall, or hurtfull, to the siknes.

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. viii. 295 His..ringe was..medicinalle againste..the fallinge sickenes.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 116 Most of the waters are medicinall.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 627 Dire inflammation which no cooling herb Or medcinal liquor can asswage.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 311 Here are Hot baths, very famous for their Medicinal Virtues.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §1. 35 Medicinal Bodies appear, from Observations both philosophical and vulgar, to be endued with more active Properties than common Aliments.

1777 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (ed. 3) I. ii. 59 Bath was celebrated for the salutary effects of its medicinal waters.

1832 J. Thomson Acct. Life W. Cullen I. 179 To employ all the means, medicinal, dietetic, and regiminal, which may assist in restoring the diseased economy.

1847 (title) The water-cure applied to every known disease: a complete demonstration of the hydropathic system of curing diseases; showing, also, the fallacy of the medicinal method, and its utter inability to effect a permanent cure.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 429 The medical and medicinal treatment of aortic aneurysm.

1920 Sci. Amer. 14 Feb. 157 The peyote..is a species of small cactus widely used for both medicinal and ceremonial purposes by the Indian tribes of the southwestern U.S.

1952 Ann. Internal Med. 37 1149 These drugs appear to be the safest..of any medicinal regimen we have tried.

1991 Amer. Hort. Nov. 4/1 The German phytomedicine regulatory system is expected to serve as the primary model for regulating medicinal plant products throughout Europe.

b. figurative. That has an influence or effect regarded as similar to that of medicine; spec. spiritually uplifting, edifying.

ΚΠ

c1400 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) Titus ii. 8 Word medicynal [c1384 Douce 369(2) ȝyue thi silf ensaumple of good werkis in teching..An hool word vnreprouable; L. sanum].

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxvi/2 As in the councel of Oxenford it is..decreed that the sentence of excommunicacion whiche is sayd medecinall iiij tymes in the yere to be pronounced.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 213 All this misery of mankinde..is a medicional sorrow, and not a penall sentence.

1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. v. 374 The medicinal vertue of Repentance, lying not in the duration, but the manner of it.

1794 S. T. Coleridge Lines on Friend 11 Soothing each pang with fond solicitude, And tenderest tones medicinal of love.

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude in Wks. (1906) III. 81 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library..because he is so..medicinal and invigorating.

1903 Hibbert Jrnl. Mar. 583 The preaching of Christianity as medicinal for soul and body brought success.

1984 P. Chaplin Unforgotten (1988) iii. 54 Some days he was so soothing there was something almost medicinal about him.

c. Of a taste, smell, etc.: resembling that of a medicine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > like medicine

physicky1752

medicinal1824

1824 A. Henderson Hist. Wines 344 [It] is apt to infect the liquor with a medicinal taste.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) 55 This night we had a dish of arbor-vitæ, or cedar-tea... It had too medicinal a taste for my palate.

1960 G. Butler Death lives Next Door vii. 151 Another smell, something faintly medicinal and disinfectant, as if the lady had been having a bath in dettol.

1991 Decanter Aug. 14/1 The nose had a very pronounced medicinal iron scent.

a. Of, relating to, or used in the science or the practice of medicine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective]

medicinala1387

curative?a1425

physic?a1425

physical?a1425

medicinablec1475

Aesculapian1604

medical1646

physico-medical1677

sanative1695

medic1700

iatrical1816

iatric1851

sanatory1870

med1933

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 363 He made problems medicinal, of phisik and of kynde.

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 7 Siurgie..is a medicinal [v.r. medycineal] science.

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 66 Y wyl delyure to þe techinge Medicynal.

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. To Rdr. sig. Aaaiii Suche medicinal instruments, as..are mencioned in the same bookes.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 171 Certain medicinall books and writings of Trismegistus.

1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis v. 9 They min'd it near, they batter'd from a far With all the Cannon of the Med'cinal War.

1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia I. xix. 213 As Nonsense and medicinal Knowledge are equally intelligible to most People, [etc.].

1779 F. Burney Let. 15 June (1994) III. 299 Poor Mrs. Thrale..spoke in terms of highest praise of Mr. Seward, who..exerted his medicinal skill..with..kindness.

1804 Miniature (1806) No. 20. I. 267 The medicinal art.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxi. 207 Oftentimes, they prefaced their dram with some medicinal remark as to the wholesomeness and stomachic qualities of that particular drink.

1880 Chambers's Encycl. vi. 74/2 The Horse-leech..is much larger than the medicinal species.

1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 98 ‘Nujol’, a medicinal lubricant, is used for the pump.

1951 N.Y. Times 14 June 22/2 ‘John’ went into a drugstore..and for 45 cents got an envelope containing a medicinal dropper and a hypodermic needle.

1998 Chem. in Brit. Oct. 48/1 Most of the marketed inhibitors started from peptide substrates that have been elegantly transformed by medicinal chemists into peptidomimetics.

†b. Designating a period of time during which the administration of medicines was deemed safe or most effective. Cf. medical month n. at medical adj. and n. Compounds. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [adjective] > time for administering drugs

medicinal1603

1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xxi. 427 Galen..did deuise another of his owne, which he called the Medicinall or Physitians moneth.

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 229 The time when most proper to administer Physick, called the Medicinal Moneth.

1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) at Medicine Medicinal Days, such are so called by some Writers, wherein no Crisis or Change is expected, so as to forbid the use of Medicines..: but it is most properly used for those Days, wherein Purging or any other Evacuation is most conveniently comply'd with.

1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) at Medicine Medicinal Hours are commonly reckoned in the Morning fasting, about an Hour before Dinner [etc.].

1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 120 The antients divided the days of an acute fever into critical, indicatory, intercalary, and medicinal.

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Medicinal hours, those hours in which medicine may be taken with most advantage; being, in the morning fasting, an hour before dinner, four hours after it, and at bed time.

1868 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 260 She forgot all about everything but the bare joy of life and the sea, when she..crept out into the surf, at the proper medicinal hour, for the Doctor was very particular with her.

B. n.

†1. In plural. Matters relating to medical science or practice. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > matters relating to

medicinalsa1657

a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 191 'Tis possible Mr. R's directions, as one well skill'd in such medicinals, may prove available.

2. A medicinal substance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament

medicine?c1225

physicc1325

treacle1340

dia1377

pharmacyc1385

drugc1400

medicament?1440

applyment1561

spece1605

pharmack1643

eradicative1654

medicinal1667

medicinable1683

operative1716

pharmaceutical1829

pharmaceutic1927

meds1967

macrofilaricide1978

1667 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 410 In Medicinals we have now and then..inquired after some rarities.

1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 12 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The knowledge of all the Medicinals, that they could come any way to be acquainted with.

1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 36 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Searching into the Oriental..Medicinals.

1753 R. Dodsley Public Virtue 58 The praises of England with regard to its various products... Dyer's Herbs. Esculents. Medicinals.

1813 Examiner 15 Feb. 99/2 Brandy, medicinals, &c.

1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. i. 5 The remarkable cures he had effected by the medicinals stored in the stolen casket.

1939 Fortune Oct. 142/3 In addition it does a small business in medicinals, rubber chemicals, organic detergents [etc.].

1993 Pediatric Infectious Dis. Jrnl. 12 613/1 We reviewed the literature about their use as medicinals and studied the in vitro activity of garlic and onion against..bacterial strains.

Compounds

† medicinal finger n. Obsolete the finger next to the little finger, esp. of the left hand (cf. leech-finger, medical finger, physician finger: see the first element).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > ring finger

ring fingereOE

leech-fingerc1000

leechc1290

leechman14..

medicinable finger?a1475

ring man?c1475

wedding-finger1543

nameless finger1584

medicinal finger1598

physic finger1621

physical finger1623

physician finger1623

medical finger1653

marriage finger1711

ring digit1867

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 12 b/1 The Medicinalle finger, or Ringe finger, betweene the little finger and the middle finger.

1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood i. v. 48 The medicinall finger of the left hand.

medicinal leech n. a European freshwater leech, Hirudo medicinalis, used (esp. formerly) for bloodletting.

ΚΠ

1804 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 2) III. 535 The Medicinal Leech. Is usually found in stagnant ponds and ditches, and is of an olive black colour, with six yellowish lines above, and spotted with yellow beneath.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 217 The three muscular jaws..bear at their edges in the medicinal Leech about 80–90 fine chitinoid teeth.

1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) v. 51 The medicinal leech is an elongated flattened worm, from three to five inches in length.

1995 Daily Tel. 13 Dec. 13/2 Other rescue plans include stocking ponds with the medicinal leech, now down to 20 populations.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	medicinal
释义	medicinaladj.n. Brit. /mᵻˈdɪsn̩(ə)l/, /mᵻˈdɪsᵻn(ə)l/, U.S. /məˈdɪsən(ə)l/, /mɛˈdɪsn(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English medecinale, Middle English medecynal, Middle English medicinel, Middle English medicynal, Middle English medycinal, Middle English medycineal, Middle English medycynal, Middle English–1500s medicinalle, Middle English–1500s medicynall, Middle English–1500s medycynall, Middle English– medicinal, 1500s medecynall, 1500s medicional, 1500s–1600s medecinall, 1500s–1600s medicinall, 1600s medcinal, 1600s med'cinal, 1600s med'cinall, 1600s–1700s med'c'nal; Scottish pre-1700 medecinall, pre-1700 medicinale, pre-1700 medicinall, pre-1700 medicionell, pre-1700 1700s– medicinal. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French medicinal; Latin medicīnālis. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French medicinal, medecinal healing, curative (1326; c1200 in this sense in Picard texts; late 12th cent. in Old French as noun denoting a remedy; French médicinal ), relating to medicine (late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman designating a book; c1485 in Middle French), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin medicīnālis of or relating to medicine (in post-classical Latin also ‘healing’, from early 3rd cent. in Tertullian; see also note below) < medicīna medicine n.¹ + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan medecinal (noun) remedy (c1150), medicinal (adjective) healing, curative (c1300), Italian medicinale (adjective) healing, curative (a1304), (noun) remedy (1618).Post-classical Latin medicinalis is used also in a figurative sense with reference to spiritual healing (5th cent.), and the neuter plural, medicinalia , is used as a noun to denote spiritual remedies (5th cent.), medicinal substances (from 13th cent. in British sources), and medicine as an academic discipline (14th cent. in a British source). With medicinal science , medicinal art (see sense A. 2a) compare classical Latin ars medicīnālis (title of work by Celsus), Middle French art medicinal (c1485). For medicinal finger see etymological note s.v. medical adj. Johnson gives pronunciations with stress on the penultimate syllable as well as the antepenultimate. Walker adduces a number of authorities in favour of the latter and casts much doubt on the former. A trisyllabic pronunciation, with elision of the second syllable and probably with stress on the first syllable, is attested by 17th- and 18th-cent. spellings such as med'cinal, medcinal. A. adj. 1. a. Having or designating healing or curative properties or attributes (with against, for); therapeutic; used as a medicine; of or relating to medicines; involving the use of medicines.Quot. a1384 has also been taken as a use of the noun (see N.E.D.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective] medicinala1384 wholesomea1387 healinga1398 medicinablea1398 restorativea1398 sanative14.. curatory?a1425 remediable1437 mildlya1475 curable1483 recurablea1500 curative1525 eradicative1543 good1580 physical1580 medicable1590 sanable1598 balsamic1605 therapeutical1606 medicinary1607 medicative1644 medical1646 therapeutic1646 salutary1649 salvative1653 boethetic1656 medicamentary1656 recuperatory1656 sanitating1656 medicamental1657 medicamentous1659 medicating1705 balmy1747 salving1751 sanatorya1832 salubrious1855 medicatory1864 recuperative1872 a1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) Apoc. iii. 18 Anoynte thin iȝen with colirie, [glossed] that is medicynal for yȝen, maad of diuerse erbis. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 124 (MED) Þai say it [sc. olive oil] es soueraynly medecinale. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) l. 8 Ysope is a medicynall erbe. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 245 Medycinal Purgacions sholde bene y-makyd..of thynges that Purgyth malencolie. 1525 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. viii. 214 It may be by the College considerid whether the bill were medecynall, or hurtfull, to the siknes. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. viii. 295 His..ringe was..medicinalle againste..the fallinge sickenes. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 116 Most of the waters are medicinall. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 627 Dire inflammation which no cooling herb Or medcinal liquor can asswage. View more context for this quotation 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 311 Here are Hot baths, very famous for their Medicinal Virtues. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §1. 35 Medicinal Bodies appear, from Observations both philosophical and vulgar, to be endued with more active Properties than common Aliments. 1777 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (ed. 3) I. ii. 59 Bath was celebrated for the salutary effects of its medicinal waters. 1832 J. Thomson Acct. Life W. Cullen I. 179 To employ all the means, medicinal, dietetic, and regiminal, which may assist in restoring the diseased economy. 1847 (title) The water-cure applied to every known disease: a complete demonstration of the hydropathic system of curing diseases; showing, also, the fallacy of the medicinal method, and its utter inability to effect a permanent cure. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 429 The medical and medicinal treatment of aortic aneurysm. 1920 Sci. Amer. 14 Feb. 157 The peyote..is a species of small cactus widely used for both medicinal and ceremonial purposes by the Indian tribes of the southwestern U.S. 1952 Ann. Internal Med. 37 1149 These drugs appear to be the safest..of any medicinal regimen we have tried. 1991 Amer. Hort. Nov. 4/1 The German phytomedicine regulatory system is expected to serve as the primary model for regulating medicinal plant products throughout Europe. b. figurative. That has an influence or effect regarded as similar to that of medicine; spec. spiritually uplifting, edifying. ΚΠ c1400 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) Titus ii. 8 Word medicynal [c1384 Douce 369(2) ȝyue thi silf ensaumple of good werkis in teching..An hool word vnreprouable; L. sanum]. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxvi/2 As in the councel of Oxenford it is..decreed that the sentence of excommunicacion whiche is sayd medecinall iiij tymes in the yere to be pronounced. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 213 All this misery of mankinde..is a medicional sorrow, and not a penall sentence. 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. v. 374 The medicinal vertue of Repentance, lying not in the duration, but the manner of it. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Lines on Friend 11 Soothing each pang with fond solicitude, And tenderest tones medicinal of love. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude in Wks. (1906) III. 81 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library..because he is so..medicinal and invigorating. 1903 Hibbert Jrnl. Mar. 583 The preaching of Christianity as medicinal for soul and body brought success. 1984 P. Chaplin Unforgotten (1988) iii. 54 Some days he was so soothing there was something almost medicinal about him. c. Of a taste, smell, etc.: resembling that of a medicine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > like medicine physicky1752 medicinal1824 1824 A. Henderson Hist. Wines 344 [It] is apt to infect the liquor with a medicinal taste. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) 55 This night we had a dish of arbor-vitæ, or cedar-tea... It had too medicinal a taste for my palate. 1960 G. Butler Death lives Next Door vii. 151 Another smell, something faintly medicinal and disinfectant, as if the lady had been having a bath in dettol. 1991 Decanter Aug. 14/1 The nose had a very pronounced medicinal iron scent. 2. a. Of, relating to, or used in the science or the practice of medicine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective] medicinala1387 curative?a1425 physic?a1425 physical?a1425 medicinablec1475 Aesculapian1604 medical1646 physico-medical1677 sanative1695 medic1700 iatrical1816 iatric1851 sanatory1870 med1933 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 363 He made problems medicinal, of phisik and of kynde. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 7 Siurgie..is a medicinal [v.r. medycineal] science. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 66 Y wyl delyure to þe techinge Medicynal. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. To Rdr. sig. Aaaiii Suche medicinal instruments, as..are mencioned in the same bookes. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 171 Certain medicinall books and writings of Trismegistus. 1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis v. 9 They min'd it near, they batter'd from a far With all the Cannon of the Med'cinal War. 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia I. xix. 213 As Nonsense and medicinal Knowledge are equally intelligible to most People, [etc.]. 1779 F. Burney Let. 15 June (1994) III. 299 Poor Mrs. Thrale..spoke in terms of highest praise of Mr. Seward, who..exerted his medicinal skill..with..kindness. 1804 Miniature (1806) No. 20. I. 267 The medicinal art. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxi. 207 Oftentimes, they prefaced their dram with some medicinal remark as to the wholesomeness and stomachic qualities of that particular drink. 1880 Chambers's Encycl. vi. 74/2 The Horse-leech..is much larger than the medicinal species. 1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 98 ‘Nujol’, a medicinal lubricant, is used for the pump. 1951 N.Y. Times 14 June 22/2 ‘John’ went into a drugstore..and for 45 cents got an envelope containing a medicinal dropper and a hypodermic needle. 1998 Chem. in Brit. Oct. 48/1 Most of the marketed inhibitors started from peptide substrates that have been elegantly transformed by medicinal chemists into peptidomimetics. †b. Designating a period of time during which the administration of medicines was deemed safe or most effective. Cf. medical month n. at medical adj. and n. Compounds. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [adjective] > time for administering drugs medicinal1603 1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xxi. 427 Galen..did deuise another of his owne, which he called the Medicinall or Physitians moneth. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 229 The time when most proper to administer Physick, called the Medicinal Moneth. 1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) at Medicine Medicinal Days, such are so called by some Writers, wherein no Crisis or Change is expected, so as to forbid the use of Medicines..: but it is most properly used for those Days, wherein Purging or any other Evacuation is most conveniently comply'd with. 1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) at Medicine Medicinal Hours are commonly reckoned in the Morning fasting, about an Hour before Dinner [etc.]. 1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 120 The antients divided the days of an acute fever into critical, indicatory, intercalary, and medicinal. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Medicinal hours, those hours in which medicine may be taken with most advantage; being, in the morning fasting, an hour before dinner, four hours after it, and at bed time. 1868 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 260 She forgot all about everything but the bare joy of life and the sea, when she..crept out into the surf, at the proper medicinal hour, for the Doctor was very particular with her. B. n. †1. In plural. Matters relating to medical science or practice. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > matters relating to medicinalsa1657 a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 191 'Tis possible Mr. R's directions, as one well skill'd in such medicinals, may prove available. 2. A medicinal substance. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament medicine?c1225 physicc1325 treacle1340 dia1377 pharmacyc1385 drugc1400 medicament?1440 applyment1561 spece1605 pharmack1643 eradicative1654 medicinal1667 medicinable1683 operative1716 pharmaceutical1829 pharmaceutic1927 meds1967 macrofilaricide1978 1667 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 410 In Medicinals we have now and then..inquired after some rarities. 1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 12 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The knowledge of all the Medicinals, that they could come any way to be acquainted with. 1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 36 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Searching into the Oriental..Medicinals. 1753 R. Dodsley Public Virtue 58 The praises of England with regard to its various products... Dyer's Herbs. Esculents. Medicinals. 1813 Examiner 15 Feb. 99/2 Brandy, medicinals, &c. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. i. 5 The remarkable cures he had effected by the medicinals stored in the stolen casket. 1939 Fortune Oct. 142/3 In addition it does a small business in medicinals, rubber chemicals, organic detergents [etc.]. 1993 Pediatric Infectious Dis. Jrnl. 12 613/1 We reviewed the literature about their use as medicinals and studied the in vitro activity of garlic and onion against..bacterial strains. Compounds † medicinal finger n. Obsolete the finger next to the little finger, esp. of the left hand (cf. leech-finger, medical finger, physician finger: see the first element). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > ring finger ring fingereOE leech-fingerc1000 leechc1290 leechman14.. medicinable finger?a1475 ring man?c1475 wedding-finger1543 nameless finger1584 medicinal finger1598 physic finger1621 physical finger1623 physician finger1623 medical finger1653 marriage finger1711 ring digit1867 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 12 b/1 The Medicinalle finger, or Ringe finger, betweene the little finger and the middle finger. 1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood i. v. 48 The medicinall finger of the left hand. medicinal leech n. a European freshwater leech, Hirudo medicinalis, used (esp. formerly) for bloodletting. ΚΠ 1804 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 2) III. 535 The Medicinal Leech. Is usually found in stagnant ponds and ditches, and is of an olive black colour, with six yellowish lines above, and spotted with yellow beneath. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 217 The three muscular jaws..bear at their edges in the medicinal Leech about 80–90 fine chitinoid teeth. 1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) v. 51 The medicinal leech is an elongated flattened worm, from three to five inches in length. 1995 Daily Tel. 13 Dec. 13/2 Other rescue plans include stocking ponds with the medicinal leech, now down to 20 populations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1384
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