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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
lambative en · ADJ
Etymology
Latin lambō (“to lick, lap”).
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable) Taken by licking with the tongue.
Syrups and lambitive medicines.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
lambative en · NOUN
Etymology
Latin lambō (“to lick, lap”).
Meanings
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(archaic) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.
advising a Lambative of album
1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
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