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minorative

minorative

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

minorative (not comparable)

  1. (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.

Translations

Noun

minorative (plural minoratives)

  1. (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.

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Related terms

  • minorand

References


French

Adjective

minorative

  1. feminine singular of minoratif

Middle French

Noun

minorative f (plural minoratives)

  1. laxative