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minorative
minorative
English
Alternative forms
- minoratyve [16th C.]
Adjective
minorative (not comparable)
- (obsolete, of a medicine) Gently laxative.
- 1543, Bartholomew Traheron (translator), Joannes de Vigo (author), The Most Excellent Workes of Chirurgerye, book IX, addendum, page 225:
- Clysters sometymes do supplye the rowme of minoratyve medicines.
- 1747, Jean Astruc (author; translator unknown), Academical Lectures on Fevers, page 112:
- Nothing but minorative apozems should be ordered.
- 1543, Bartholomew Traheron (translator), Joannes de Vigo (author), The Most Excellent Workes of Chirurgerye, book IX, addendum, page 225:
Translations
of a medicine: gently laxative
Noun
minorative (plural minoratives)
- (obsolete) A gently laxative medicine.
- 1633, James Hart, Κλινική; or, The Diet of the Diseased, book III, chapter xiv, page 284:
- When…wee feare lest nature faint before perfect concoction, we may sometimes use a gentle minorative.
- 1747, Jean Astruc (author; translator unknown), Academical Lectures on Fevers, page 232:
- Others give minoratives more frequently.
- 1633, James Hart, Κλινική; or, The Diet of the Diseased, book III, chapter xiv, page 284:
Translations
a gentle laxative
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References
- NED VI (L–N; 1st ed., 1908), part ii (M–N), § 1 (M), page 478/3, “†Mi·norative, a. and sb.”
- OED (2nd ed., 1989), “†ˈminorative, a. and n.”
- OED (3rd ed., March 2002), “†minorative, adj. and n.”