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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK] outlet for the wind, exhalation, fr. [GREEK] to blow through;

διά

through + [GREEK] to blow, breathe: cf. F.

diapnoïque

(Med.)

Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.

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Noun.

A gentle diaphoretic.