单词 | pacative |
释义 | † pacativeadj. Obsolete. rare. Calming, sedative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [adjective] > sedative, narcotic, or hypnotic stupefactive?a1425 sedativec1425 narcotic1526 opiate1543 narcotical1587 soporiferous1601 hypnotic1625 soporative1629 pacative1664 opiative1674 opiatic1678 thebaic1746 soporific1775 narcotico-acrid1815 depressant1887 opiumy1891 1664 G. Starkey Brief Exam. & Censure Several Med. 3 Otherwise a powerful abstersive, (especially if it have a pacative vertue mixt with it to pacifie the enraged Archeus) will perform the desires of both Patient and Physitian. a1677 T. Manton 190 Serm. on 119th Psalm (1681) 158 It is no small ease that we have a God to go to, to whom we may freely open our minds. Prayer hath a pacative virtue. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xix. 752 The pacative vertue [L. vis pacativa] of Vitriol [seems extended] to the effervescent bile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adj.1664 |
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