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单词 pacative
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pacativeadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pacativus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pacativus (1593 or earlier) < classical Latin pācāt- , past participial stem of pācāre (see pacate adj.) + -īvus -ive suffix; compare -ative suffix. Compare earlier pacate adj., pacation n.
Obsolete. rare.
Calming, sedative.
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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).
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