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sedative, a. and n.|ˈsɛdətɪv|
Also 5 sed-, cedatyve.
[a. F. sédatif adj. and n., or ad. med.L. sēdātīv-us, f. L. sēdāre: see prec. and -ive.]
A. adj.
a. Med. That has the property of allaying, assuaging, or soothing.
sedative salt, old name (sal sedativum, Homberg 1702) for boracic acid.
c1425Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 93 Oile roset complete is resolutiue, confortatyue, and conueniently cedatyue of akyng. Ibid. 94 It is a conuenient resolutyue, and of akyng sedatyue. 1678Phillips (ed. 4) s.v., Sedative Medicines..are such as have power or vertue to allay and asswage pain. 1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 36 Mr. Homberg called it Sedative Salt, on account of its medical effects. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 614 Disputes..concerning the stimulant and sedative effects of cold. 1862Miller Elem. Chem., Org. (ed. 2) 492 Morphia..appears to be the principal sedative constituent of opium.
b. transf. and gen.
1795Burke Reg. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 27 Against alarm on their politick and military empire these are the writer's sedative remedies. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxix. (1856) 251 It illustrates the sedative effect of a protracted succession of hazards. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Illusions Wks. (Bohn) II. 445 Is not our faith in the impenetrability of matter more sedative than narcotics?
B. n.
a. Med. A sedative medicine.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 99/1 Vinegar..generally acts as a sedative. 1853C. Brontë Villette xxxviii, The sedative had been administered. In fact, they had given me a strong opiate. I was to be held quiet for one night. 1874H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 148 There are certain drugs which are used by practitioners to decrease the activity of the circulation; and it is these which are here considered under the heading of Cardiac Sedatives. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 604 Sedatives such as bromides and valerian..must be administered.
b. transf. and gen.
1785Paley Mor. & Polit. Philos. iii. ii. vii. I. 298 Reflections..which may be called the sedatives of anger. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xv, The lazy influence of a late and lonely breakfast, with the additional sedative of a news⁓paper. 1864Mrs. J. H. Riddell Geo. Geith xxix, ‘Beryl's singing always sends me to sleep’. ‘So that I am of some use in the world, if only as a sedative’, replied Beryl. |