Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who medicates; one who prescribes or prepares medicines.
  • noun An instrument for carrying remedies into a cavity of the body, as the larynx; an applicator.

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Examples

  • People are reaching for their "go to" medicator whether it be food, alcohol, drugs, sex or even spending.

    Dr. Tian Dayton: I Think I Got Scammed by the Acai Berry Thing 2009

  • If the accused has friends, either to pay or tamper with the medicator, the draft is commonly made weak enough to insure its harmless rejection from the culprit's stomach; but when the victim is friendless, time is allowed for the entire venom to exude, and the drinker dies ere he can drink the second bowl.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Quis autem alius uel seruator bonorum uel malorum depulsor quam rector ac medicator mentium deus?

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • What has been translated by that word seems little more than the art of a medicator of poisons, combined with that of a Pythoness or false prophetess; a crime, however, of a capital nature, by the Levitical law, since, in the first capacity, it implied great enmity to mankind, and in the second, direct treason to the divine Legislator.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

  • What has been translated by that word seems little more than the art of a medicator of poisons, combined with that of a Pythoness or false prophetess; a crime, however, of a capital nature, by the Levitical law, since, in the first capacity, it implied great enmity to mankind, and in the second, direct treason to the divine Legislator.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

  • During this special time we end up eating painkillers all day like a cry-for-help self-medicator.

    Vice Magazine 2009

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