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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Expelling, or having the quality of expelling, wind from the alimentary canal.
  2. n. A medicine which tends to expel wind, and to remedy colic and flatulence. Carminatives are chiefly obtained from the vegetable kingdom, the principal being ginger, cardamoms, aniseed, and caraway-seeds. Several of the essential oils are also used as carminatives, as those of peppermint, anise, caraway, and juniper; also ardent spirits, especially in the form of aromatic tinctures.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Relieving discomfort of gas in the digestive tract.
  2. n. medicine A drug or substance that induces the removal of gas from the digestive tract.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.
  2. n. A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing
  2. adj. relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping)

Etymologies

  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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “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.”

    Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery

  • “Everything was in the word carminative -- a detailed, exact foreground, an immense, indefinite hinterland of suggestion.”

    Crome Yellow

  • “From boyhood the romantic, poetically inclined hero, Denis Stone, found the word carminative particularly evocative.”

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  • “Ginger can be classified as a carminative in addition to an antiflammatory and diaphoretic herb.”

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  • “It's a great idea to add lots to your food as black pepper is what is known as a carminative, a substance that helps prevent intestinal gas from forming (and, in turn, flatulence), and anything that can help in that department has to be a bonus.”

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  • “The medical term "carminative," a comforting medicine, really means a charm medicine, and has the same derivation.”

    Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing

  • “I had a whole poem ruined, just because the word 'carminative' didn't mean what it ought to have meant.”

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  • “Later, when I discovered alcohol, 'carminative' described for me that similar, but nobler, more spiritual glow which wine evokes not only in the body but in the soul as well.”

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  • “Recently, for example, I had a whole poem ruined, just because the word 'carminative' didn't mean what it ought to have meant.”

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  • “carminative' described for me that similar, but nobler, more spiritual glow which wine evokes not only in the body but in the soul as well.”

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. warming
  1. antispasmodic

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘carminative’

  1. healthful

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. medication
  1. medicinal drug
  1. medicament
  1. medicine

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. stomachic
  2. expectorant
  3. analgesic
  4. detoxicant
  1. sudorific
  2. diaphoretic
  3. anthelmintic
  4. antiseptic
  1. hemostatic
  2. deobstruent
  3. astringent
  4. anti-inflammatory
  1. styptic
  2. diuretic
  3. bactericidal
  4. vasodilatation
  1. extrapyramidal
  2. bitterish
  3. thiazide
  4. emollient

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. physagogue
  2. dalby's carminative
  3. coriander
  4. cinnamon
  1. camomile
  2. caraway
  3. dill-water
  4. ptychotis-seed
  1. anise
  2. antiphysical
  3. antiphysic
  4. fennel-flower
  1. juniper-oil
  2. fennel water
  3. yellow sweet clover
  4. star anise
  1. illicium verum
  2. melilotus officinalis
  3. Chinese anise
  4. cinnamon bark
  1. aqua

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