carminative

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Everything was in the word carminative--a detailed, exact foreground, an immense, indefinite hinterland of suggestion And passion carminative as wine I was not ill-pleased.

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  1. adjective Inducing the expulsion of gas from the stomach and intestines.
  2. noun A drug or agent that induces the expulsion of gas from the stomach or intestines.

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  • It was used as a carminative, expectorant, stimulant, stomachic and tonic. —  Find Me A Cure
  • Several other Angelica species have traditional medicinal uses The roots and rhizomes of Angelica pubescens are employed in Chinese herbal preparations for arthritis, rheumatism, headache, toothache, abscesses, and carminative activity (11. 1-10). —  Find Me A Cure
  • The sweet fruit is carminative, tonic, aphrodisiac; lessens inflammation, stomatitis, piles, fever, weakness and paralysis; expels bad humours from the body. —  Find Me A Cure
  • In perfumery, eugenol is used mainly at the lower end of the scale for soaps and detergents, while in pharmacy it acts as an anti-carminative and an anti-spasmodic. —  Article Source
  • In this connection it is interesting to note that, according to one authority, the word carminative, a remedy which relieves pain "like a charm," is derived from the Latin carminare_, to use incantations Words of encouragement and a cheerful mien are good therapeutic agents; and the physician of Plato's day, we are told, sometimes took an orator along with him, in his visits to Grecian households, to persuade his patients to take medicines. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
 

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  1. Middle English carminatif, from Old French, from Latin carminātus, past participle of carmināre, to card wool, from *carmen, card for wool, from cārere, to card.

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  1. = French carminatif = Spanish Portuguese Italian carminativo, from New Latin (adjective d. 1622) carminativus, from carminare (Spanish carminar), expel wind, prob. a particular use of Latin carminare, card, as wool, hence cleanse, from carmen (carmin-), a card for wool, from carere, card (see card); or, less prob., of Middle Latin carminare, use incantations, charm, L. make verses, from carmen (carmin-), a song, verse, incantation, charm.
 

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