Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as emetic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic.

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  • adjective Archaic form of emetic.

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Examples

  • And indeed Edwards was wearing the jacket in which he had indulged in that emetical luxury, his first cigar, two evenings previously.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • Such terrors would disgrace a cook-maid, or a toothless aunt -- when they fall from the lips of bearded and senatorial men, they are nauseous, antiperistaltic, and emetical.

    Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury 1889

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