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- adjective Obsolete form of
emetic . - noun Obsolete form of
emetic .
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Examples
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Miss Rutherfurd is now quite well; an emetick, which was far too strong, has however removed every symptom for the present.
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This prescription exhibits a composition of about three hundred and thirty grains, in which there are four grains of emetick tartar, and six drops [of] thebaick tincture.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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I have had a Slight attack or two, but by taking an emetick it went off.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 28 February - 1 March 1794 1794
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-- 'I do not like to take an emetick, (said Taylor,) for fear of breaking some small vessels.'
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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-- 'I do not like to take an emetick, (said Taylor,) for fear of breaking some small vessels.'
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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He farther adds, that this drain not being kept open, hath fo grown up long fince, as that the trouts are therein intercepted, and fo pent up in the pond from running water, as that they are hereby altera ed and become emetick.
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You may accustom yourself to other periodical evacuations, because should you omit them, Nature can supply the omission; but Nature cannot open a vein to blood you.’ — ‘I do not like to take an emetick, (said
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You may accustom yourself to other periodical evacuations, because should you omit them, Nature can supply the omission; but Nature cannot open a vein to blood you. '”' I do not like to take an emetick, (said Taylor,) for fear of breaking some small vessels. '”' Poh!
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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