† strangulativeadj.
Obsolete. rare.
That strangles or stops respiration.
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strangulative1648
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frummagemed1699
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1648 A. Ross Mystagogvs Poeticvs (ed. 2) xi. 264 Medea is the name of a poysonable herbe..called..in English dogs-bane; but our dogs-bane hath no such strangulative qualitie.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Mm2v One sort of Ephemerum is lethal and strangulative.
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