† repercutientn.adj.
Obsolete.
A. n.
1. That which produces an echo. Cf. repercussive adj. 3a. rare.
ΚΠ
1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. vi. 214 (side note) The Causes of Concurrent Echoes, where the Audient is equally (almost) distant from the Sonant and Repercutient.
2. Medicine. = repercussive n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine repelling or drawing off
repercussivea1398
repulsive?c1425
repercutive?1541
repulser1611
repeller1634
repercusser1634
repellent1661
repriment1684
repellant1689
repercutient1719
1719 tr. P. Dionis Gen. Treat. Midwifery iv. x. 286 In the cure of this Distemper we must not make use of Things that have the least astringent Quality,..neither must we use Repercutients.
1732 G. Smith Institutiones Chirurgicæ i. 5 Guido divides these Repercutients into two Sorts, the one common, and the other proper.
1763 R. Brookes Introd. Physic & Surg. (ed. 2) 151 A Delitescence may be caused by Repercutients; by the Coldness of the Air; by a bad Regimen; [etc.].
1814 R. W. Hall tr. D. J. Larrey Mem. Mil. Surg. I. 291 In order to get rid of it, he had consulted the physicians of the country, who had tried many means without success, such as fire, concentrated causticks, incisions, and the strongest repercutients.
B. adj.
Medicine. = repercussive adj. 1.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > repelling or drawing off
percussivea1398
repercussivea1398
repulsive?a1425
back-driving1562
repellent1575
revelling1592
depulsivec1615
repercutient1676
repellant1730
derivative1854
derivant1876
1676 tr. H. Busschof Gout i. viii, in Two Treat. 41 Can this damp of it self, or by too strongly repercutient means, be turned back again through the arteries to the heart?
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xiii. 392 The laxity of the part..will not permit us to apply any thing that is violently repercutient or resolvent.
?1710 W. Read Short Acct. Dis. Eyes v. iv. 105 By long and unadvised applications of Medicines, which are cooling and repercutient..the natural heat is extinguish'd and choak'd.
1814 R. W. Hall tr. D. J. Larrey Mem. Mil. Surg. I. 293 The astringent and repercutient qualities..are assisted by a graduated and uniform compression on all the sarcocele.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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