Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Dispersing morbid matter.
- n. A medicine or an application which disperses a swelling or an effusion.
Wiktionary
- adj. medicine Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive.
- n. An agent, such as a medicinal application, that serves to disperse morbid matter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Med.) Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive.
Etymologies
- Latin discutiens, present participle of discutere. See discuss. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Hops being endowed with discutient apertive Qualities, will by them and their great quantity supply the Defect of underboiling the Wort; and that”
“The fruit is said to be eatable; the leaves cut transversely are applied to tumors as a discutient; the decoction is mucilaginous, and I am informed that it is much used in Alabama as a demulcent drink in pneumonic and pleuritic inflammations.”
“The flowers are excitant and sudorific, and are used in the form of an ointment as a discutient.”
“The plant called St. John's-wort, which I think is Ascyrum cruxandreoe, growing abundantly throughout our country, is popularly regarded as of great value, bruised and applied in the healing of wounds, and as a discutient.”
“It is said to be sedative, astringent, tonic, and discutient.”
“In a note to Ell. Bot., 505, it is also said that the fresh root is applied with advantage as an emollient and discutient to inflamed surfaces.”
“He had not heard of this, and his manner changed in an instant: he was the rational discutient all the rest of the evening, having previously been nothing but a disputant with all the distinctions strongly marked.”
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
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Rillons of Random Palavery
A list for terms and phrases that I haven't (yet) entered into themed lists, including my series of various 151-word Random Palavery lists. Constructions that catch my eye, ring in my ears, tease m...
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chained_bear "'Applied externally, it is emollient, relaxing, and discutient, and greatly promotes suppuration...'"
—Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone (New York: Delacorte Press, 2009), 641 Dec 17, 2009