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单词 vomitive
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vomitiveadj.n.

Forms: Also 1600s vomitif, womitive; 1500s Scottish womatiue, 1600s–1700s vomative.
Etymology: < French vomitif, -ive (= Spanish vomitivo , Portuguese vomitivo , Italian vomitivo ), < medieval Latin *vomitīvus : see vomit v. and -ive suffix.
Obsolete.
A. adj.
1. Of medicines, etc.: Causing vomiting; vomitory; emetic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
figurative.1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 192 Slowness in believing is a Vomitive that brings up secrets.
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