单词 | vomitive |
释义 | † vomitiveadj.n. Obsolete. A. adj. 1. Of medicines, etc.: Causing vomiting; vomitory; emetic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > emetic vomitive1580 emetic1670 nauseant1854 1580 Breif Descr. Well of Woman Hil a 2 b To vtheris it is womatiue. 1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 142 Being therein helped by certaine vomitive pils. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xii. 337 From this vitriolous quality Mercuries dulcis, and vitriol vomitive occasion black ejections. View more context for this quotation 1682 Hist. Thee in Harl. Misc. l. 532 Now Thee itself, when given in a large dose,..does often prove vomitive. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 186 These nuts grow in Jamaica; they are not vomitive,..but called and eaten as Wallnuts. 1755 Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 846 [Antimony] being in substance most violently vomitive. 2. Of or pertaining to vomiting. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > relating to vomiting vomitory1620 vomitive1658 1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. Ep. to Rdr. sig. a6v The true preparation of all Vegetals, takes away..the vomitive quality of them, except only in Opium. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. viii. 189 That Vomitive faculty, of Antimonial Glass. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 233 Antimonium Diaphoreticum, being kept some Years,..acquir'd a Vomitive Quality. B. n. An emetic; = vomitory n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > emetic vomita1400 vomitory1601 vomitive1611 vomiter1634 nauseate1651 emetic1658 puker1714 puke1729 pick1824 nauseant1825 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vomitif, a Vomitiue, or Vomitorie; any thing that prouokes vomiting. 1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) vii. 422 Physicians..make him sicker than he is..by vomitives. 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 403 They gave her also Vomitives and Deobstruents. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Ipecacuanha The Ipecacuanha is purgative and astringent, it is also a gentle Vomitive. 1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 71 The second indication is to evacuate the morbid humour by vomitives or purgatives, or a cathartico~emetic. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 337 Vomits may be rendered purgatives, and purges vomitives. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1580 |
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