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Webster 1913 Edition
Vulnerary
Vul′ner-a-ry
,Adj.
[L.
vulnearius
: cf. F. vulnéraire
.] Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries;
“Such vulnerary remedies.” as,
. vulnerary
plants or potionsSir W. Scott.
– Noun.
[Cf. F.
vulnéraire
.] (Med.)
A vulnerary remedy.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vulnerary
VULNERARY
,Adj.
VULNERARY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
vulnerary
vulnerary
English
Adjective
vulnerary (comparative more vulnerary, superlative most vulnerary)
- Useful or used for healing wounds; healing, curative.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that [...] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 422 (footnote):
- Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- (archaic, rare) Causing wounds, wounding.
Usage notes
- Restricted in modern use primarily to works on ethnobotany and traditional medicine.
Translations
useful or used for healing wounds
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causing wounds, wounding
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Noun
vulnerary (plural vulneraries)
- A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.
- 1757, John Rutty, A Methodical Synopsis of Mineral Waters, Comprehending the Most Celebrated Medicinal Waters, both Cold and Hot, of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and Italy, and several other Parts of the World, London: Printed for William Johnston, at the Golden Ball in St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 745173148, page 494:
- On the ſurface of the water there floats a liquid bitumen, although it be every day ſcummed off, as it doth on the lake Aſphaltites in Judæa: The Inhabitants uſe it as pitch: it is alſo found to be an excellent vulnerary, and good in curing old cacoethic and ſcrophulous ulcers.
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Translations
healing drug
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