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Webster 1913 Edition
Saxifragous
Sax-if′ra-gous
,Adj.
Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.
Webster 1828 Edition
Saxifragous
SAXIF'RAGOUS
,Adj.
Definition 2025
saxifragous
saxifragous
English
Adjective
saxifragous (comparative more saxifragous, superlative most saxifragous)
- (obsolete, medicine) Dissolving bladder stones.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths
- it came to be ordered that the Goat should be fed with saxifragous herbes, and such as are conceived of power to breake the stone.
- 1677, William Hughes, The man of sin: or a discourse of popery
- I have six or seven Instances more, ... which will make such a Saxifragous Dose, that no scruple can stand before it.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths