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epicerastic
adj 1noun 1
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inferior
VERB + EPICERASTIC
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EPICERASTIC + NOUN
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adj
1
Relieving the harshness or bitterness of certain bodily humours; (loosely), soothing, emollient.
Epicerastic medicines obtund the acrimony of the humours, and mitigate the uneasy sensation thence arising.
Actually the aged dame (partly, perhaps, that she was quite tired with her own violence) listened to my various epicerastic expressions, showed herself amenable to counsel, and replied in very courteous tones.
noun
1
A medicine or herb having such an effect.
Epicerastick […] is a Medicine that assuages and corrects sharp Humours.
In a medicinal point of view it may be considered as an inferior sort of epicerastic.
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Epicerastic medicines obtund the acrimony of the humours, and mitigate the uneasy sensation thence arising.
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Actually the aged dame (partly, perhaps, that she was quite tired with her own violence) listened to my various epicerastic expressions, showed herself amenable to counsel, and replied in very courteo
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Epicerastick […] is a Medicine that assuages and corrects sharp Humours.
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In a medicinal point of view it may be considered as an inferior sort of epicerastic.
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