Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or containing antimony.
- n. A medicine containing antimony.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to antimony, or partaking of its qualities; composed of antimony, or containing antimony as a principal ingredient.
- n. A preparation of antimony; a medicine in which antimony is a principal ingredient.
Wiktionary
- adj. dated, chemistry Of or pertaining to antimony.
- n. Any drug or medical preparation containing antimony.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to antimony.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. containing antimony
Etymologies
- antimony + -al (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The old antimonial treatment still worked in East Africa, but MSF couldn't get enough of it to meet the burgeoning need, and Fungizone was out of the question in that setting.”
“‘Avoid tea, madam,’ the reader has doubtless heard him say, ‘avoid tea, fried liver, antimonial wine, and bakers’ bread.”
“Take of paregoric, liquorice and gum arabic, each an ounce, from fifty to one hundred drops of antimonial wine and two gills of hot water; mix them well together, and when cold, bottle, and cork it tight; take two tea-spoonsful at a time; if it should nauseate, give a smaller quantity.”
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
“Take of mixture of ammoniacum 4 oz., syrup of squill 3 drms., antimonial wine 60 drops, wine 1/2 oz., mix and cork.”
“Nor will it satisfactorily explain the auriferous antimonial silica veins of the New England district, New South Wales, in which quantities of angular and unaltered fragments of slate from the enclosing rocks are found imbedded in the quartz.”
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
“-- Take three cents 'worth of liquorice, three of rock candy, three of gum arabic, and put them into a quart of water; simmer them till thoroughly dissolved, then add three cents' worth paregoric, and a like quantity of antimonial wine.”
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
“The treatment consisted in keeping the bowels perfectly free and the skin moist, and this was generally obtained by calomel and antimonial powder combined, in the proportion of two grains, and three every third hour, and an occasional purge of neutral salts.”
“One of them suffered with rheumatism of the back, and walked about bent like an old man; another, who had been to the front, was palsied in the left arm; and a third kept open an ulcer on the leg, by rubbing in a little antimonial ointment, which I sold him at five dollars a box, and bought at fifty cents.”
“In The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony are accurately described a large number of antimonial preparations, and as Basil was supposed to have written this work some time in the fifteenth century, these preparations were accordingly concluded to have been, for the most part, his own discoveries.”
“Later investigations have shown that, in cases of antimonial poisoning, vomiting does not necessarily get rid of all the poison, and the convulsions in which Auguste Ballet died are symptomatic of poisoning either by morphia or antimony.”
Lists
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
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Old Pharmacy, etc.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
There. I think I've convinced myself.
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
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chained_bear Not to be confused with antinomial.
"'Gentlemen,' said Stephen to his assistants... 'I believe we may now cross off the antimonials, jalap and camphire, the eight yards of Welsh linen bandage, and the twelve yards of finer linen, which sets us up for the first month, barring the tourniquets, the mercury, and the small list of alexipharmics that Beale is sending over tomorrow.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 97 Mar 16, 2008