aloetic

& s. [In Fr. aloétique; Port. and Ital. aloetico.] 1. As adj .: Pertaining to the Aloe genus of plants, or to the substance called aloes; consisting chiefly of aloes. a perceptible smell of aloetic drugs." Carlyle: Sartor Resartus , bk. iii, chap. iv. 2. As substantive: A medicine of which the principal ingredient is aloes. ( Quincy .)