Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dispersing morbid matter.
- noun A medicine or an application which disperses a swelling or an effusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive.
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- adjective medicine Serving to
disperse morbid matter ;discussive . - noun An
agent , such as amedicinal application , that serves todisperse morbid matter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hops being endowed with discutient apertive Qualities, will by them and their great quantity supply the Defect of underboiling the Wort; and that
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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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.
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The flowers are excitant and sudorific, and are used in the form of an ointment as a discutient.
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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.
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It is said to be sedative, astringent, tonic, and discutient.
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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.
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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.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
chained_bear commented on the word discutient
"'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
December 17, 2009