Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Attenuating; making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid.
- noun A medicine which increases the fluidity of the humors; a diluent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Making
thin , as fluids;diluting ; rendering lessdense andviscid . - noun medicine, dated Any
medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; adiluent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The idea was to raise the profile of the Two Americas and all the attenuant, and very important, issuese of poverty, and Saunders blew that discussion with a self-indulgent, incoherent rant about Noo York types who go to fancy operas
Trippi, Edwards Campaign Respond To Adviser Who Slammed Blogosphere 2009
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With respect to its being an attenuative of viscid humours, it can never possess this virtue from being a diluent, for an attenuant acts _specially_ on the particles, by diminishing their bulk, while the diluent acts upon the whole mass of the fluid.
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Indeed, the operation of an attenuant is not easily known; for many are surprised that a slight inflammation should be so difficult to dissipate.
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In this only lies the difference between the old word fermentation, and the new word attenuation, every thing used as a ferment, or to promote fermentation, is attenuant.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger
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