medicament (me dika ment)

[= F. mé dicament = Sp. Pg. It. medic a men to, heal: see medicate.] 1. A healing substance; anything used as a curative; a medicine or remedy; now, more especially, a healing substance applied externally. Not with any medicament of a contrary Galenistes to cure contraria contrarijeme, as the Para cels i ans, who cure similia similibus , making one do- lour to expell another. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 39. I sent more chirurgeons, linen, medicaments , ., to the sever all ports in my district. Evelyn , Diary, June 7, 1666. The lump of sugar which pothicars put into their wholesome but bitter medicaments to please a froward child. Scott , Abbot, xxii. 2. Medicinal effect; curative power; the property of healing or remedying disease or disorder. The stricken soldier was gathering strength and vitality by the unconscious medicament of the soft sunshine and balmy breezes. Tourgée , A Fool's Errand, p. 98. medicamental (med"i-ka-men'tal), a. [ med icament + -al .] Relating or pertaining to medicaments; having the character of a medicament. medicamentally (med"i-ka-men'tal-i), adv. In a medicinal way; as a medicament. The fish [codling] is not a young cod, being more wholesome medicamentally , but not so toothsome. N. and Q., 6th ser., IX. 210. Many medicasters, pretenders to physick, buy the degree of doctor abroad. Whitlock, Manners of the English (1654), p. 107. ( Latham .) medicate (med'i-kāt), v . t .; pret. and pp. med i cated , ppr. medicating . [ medic at us , pp. of medicari (>It. medicare = Sp. Pg. medicar =OF. medier ), heal, cure, medic us , a physician, surgeon: see medic1.] 1. To make medicinal; tincture or imbue with a remedial substance or principle. To this may be ascribed the great effects of medicated waters. Arbuthnot , Aliments. 2. To treat with medicine; ply with or as if with drugs. Did ever Siren warble so dulcet a song to ears already prepo e ed and medicated with spells of Circean effeminacy? De Quincey , Philos. of Rom. Hist. Medicated ale, bath, etc. See the nouns. medication (med-i-kā'shon), n. [= F. médica tion = Pr. medicacio = Pg. medic ação = It. me dicazione, He adviseth to observe the times of notable mutations, as the equinoxes and the solstices, and to decline med i cation ten days before and after. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 13. medicative (med'i-kā-tiv), a . [ medicate + -ive .] Having medical properties; curing; tending to cure. Medicean (med-i-se'an), a. [ Medicean Some griefs are medicinable ; that is one of them, For it doth physic love. Shak ., Cymbeline, iii. 2. 33. No man hath sought to make an imitation by art of nat- ural baths and medicinable fountains. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 199. Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Shak . , Othello, v. 2. 351. To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores Emerson, Misc., p. 21. their tone. 21. Pertaining to medicine; medical. Learned he was in med'c'nal lore. S. Butler, Hudibras, I. ii. 223. medicinally (mē-dis'i-nal-i), adv. In a medicinal manner; with the effect of a medicine; for medicinal purposes: as, some kinds of food act medicinally; to use a mineral medicinally. medicine (med'i-sin, more often med'i-sn), n. [ OF. medecin, F. médec in, > E. obs. medicine (def. 4), a physician), Than par auenture send sall he Sum of his angels to that tre, Of whi[l]k springes the oile of life, That medcyn es to man and wife. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 65. Thei perceyveden wel that no Sykne e was curable by gode Medycyne to leye thereto, but zif men knewen the nature of the Maladye. Mandeville , Travels, p. 120. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged, Shak ., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 2. 19. 3684 Nature too unkind, That made no medicine for a troubled mind. Beau . and Fl . , Phil aster, iii. 2. woes of mankind is wisdom. Huxley , Lay Sermons, p. 39. 2. The art of preventing, curing, or alleviating diseases and remedying as far as po ible the results of violence and accident. Practical med i cine is divided into medicine in a stricter sense, surgery, and obstetrics. These rest largely on the sciences of medieval medic is (med'i-se), n. A covering or wrap for the shoulders and breast, consisting generally of a loosely gathered piece of tulle or blond, worn about the close of the eighteenth century. anatomy and physiology, normal and pathological pharmed ick1t, a. and n. See medic1. macology, and bacteriology, which, having practical remedick2, n. See medic3 . lations almost exclusively with medicine, are called the medico (med'i-kō), medical sciences form distinct parts of that art. Ab- breviated med. Ne hide it nought, for if thou feignest, 3. Something which is supposed to po e curative, supernatural, or mysterious power; any object used or any ceremony performed as a charm: an English equivalent for terms used among American Indians and other savage tribes. And as an angler med'cine [i. e. bait], for surprize Of little fish, sits pouring from the rocks From out the crooked horn of a fold-bred ox. Chapman, Ody ey, xii. ( Nares.) Among the North American Indians, the fetish-theory seems involved in that remarkable and general proceed. ing known as getting medicine. E. B. Tylor , Prim. Culture, II. 141. bark stone, is the product of a gland of the beaver. The medicine used as bait, sometimes denominated Pop. Sci. Mo., XXV. 20. 41. A physician. [A Gallicism.] Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal; And with him pour we in our country's purge Each drop of us. Shak., Macbeth, v. 2. 27. Cephalic medicines. See cephalic. - Clinical medicine. See clinical. - Domestic, eclectic, forensic, Hermetic medicine. See the adjectives. - Institutes of medicine. See institute. - Logical medicine. See logical.