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Webster 1913 Edition


Sternutatory

Ster-nu′ta-to-ry

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Adj.
Sternutative.
Noun.
A sternutatory substance or medicine.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sternutatory

STERNUTATORY

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Adj.
[L., to sneeze.] Having the quality of exciting to sneeze.

STERNUTATORY

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Noun.
A substance that provokes sneezing.

Definition 2024


sternutatory

sternutatory

English

Adjective

sternutatory (comparative more sternutatory, superlative most sternutatory)

  1. That causes or induces sneezing; sternutative.
    • 1800sFrancis Adams (translator), On Fistulae by Hippocrates
      When the gut protrudes and will not remain in its place, scrape the finest and most compact silphium (assafoetida?) into small pieces and apply as a cataplasm, and apply a sternutatory medicine to the nose and provoke sneezing

Synonyms

Noun

sternutatory (plural sternutatories)

  1. Any substance that causes sneezing; a sternutator

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