lambative

English

Etymology

Latin lambō (“I lick, lap”).

Adjective

lambative (not comparable)

(archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
  Syrups and lambitive medicines.

Noun

lambative (plural lambatives)

(archaic) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises
  advising a Lambative of album

References

lambative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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