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medicinally, adv.|mɪˈdɪsɪnəlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. With the purpose or effect of a medicine.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 65 They gave it medicinally to them which were sick of the Ptisick. 1682Dryden Medal 150 The Witnesses, that, Leech-like, liv'd on bloud, Sucking for them were med'cinally good. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Wormwood, That which is commonly made Use of Medicinally. 1836J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. (ed. 2) 23 It is now..fifteen years since I first used..the muriate of morphia medicinally. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 795 The internal administration of specific remedies..is all that can be done medicinally.
fig.a1711Ken Anodynes Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 452 Thy Love, Lord, I in Pains perceiv'd, And sing thy Love when med'cinally griev'd.
2.
†a. From the point of view of the science of medicine (obs.).
b. nonce-use. In the practice of medicine.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. 69 My purpose..is..to Anatomise this humour of Melancholy..and that philosophically, medicinally, to shew the causes..and seuerall cures of it. 1846Poe J. W. Francis Wks. 1864 III. 38 Connected in some manner with everything that has been well said or done medicinally in America. |