† carminatev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. Of medicines: To expel (wind) from the stomach or bowels.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvi. viii. 250 To carminat or dissolve ventosities.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Briefe Catal. Words of Art To Carminate, is to make more fine and thin the grosse humors..a tearme..borrowed from those that card wooll.
1655 Physical Dict. (at cited word) Carminating medicines, are such as do break wind.
2. To card wool, etc. (Only in dictionaries.)
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1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Carminate, to card wooll, or deuide.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Carminate, to spin.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Carminate, to card wool, or hatchel flax, to sever the good from the bad.
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