Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine, obsolete A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.), obsolete A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
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Miscellany, pt. m
mysticete, muisvoël, myography, myospasm, mereswine, melanagogue, misdeedy, malerisch, maquette, mise-en-page, miserabilism, mournival and 26 more...
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A Gogue or Two
sialogogue, secretagogue, ptysmagogue, psychagogue, phlegmagogue, pedagogue, mystagogue, melanagogue, logogogue, lithagogue, hypnagogue, hydragogue and 4 more...
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qroqqa Proximately from French; ultimately from Greek melan- "black", agôg- "drawing, leading". Aug 6, 2008
she From French mélanagogue, purge for melancholy; a medicine supposed to expel black bile. Aug 6, 2008