(a) Phil. Not a natural or essential part of a thing, non-essential, incidental, secondary; (b) not inherent in a thing, induced from without; (c) ?growing out of something else, ?outward, external. …

Logic & ethics A prior assumption or principle, a premise; antecedent trouth; antecedent ded, a preceding act as causing a later act. …

Med. Capable of opening or dilating (pores, veins, etc.): a medicine causing dilation. …

(a) Of persons: gracious, gentle, kind, generous, merciful; showing good will (toward sb.); of an inferior: meek, submissive; (b) as noun: a gracious person; (c) of an animal: friendly, gentle, tame. …

(a) Of a black color, black; (b) blak and blo, black and livid, black and blue [see blo adj.]; blak or whit, black or white, of any color or kind; blak as col (blacche, croue, inde, molde, pich, slo),……

Med. Gangrenous, mortified. …

Med. (a) Of a remedy or a diet: producing heat in the body, warming; (b) a medicine which increases heat. …

Med. Having the property of dispersing wind in the body. …

Med. Aiding the growth of flesh. …

Med. Descending, falling; cathesial opilacioun, cathesial stopping, an obstruction of the post-nasal passages by the descent of humors from the brain. …

(a) Shared, possessed in common; (b) med. of the cause of an ailment: not local, systemic. …

(a) Chemically corrosive; water corrosif, an acid; also fig.; (b) a chemically corroding substance, as an acid. …

(a) Daily; also, continual, unceasing; (b) usual, habitual; ordinary, everyday. …

(a) Med. Of a disease: at the turning point for better or worse, at the crisis; (b) as noun: bi wei of cretik, at the critical or decisive stage, at the crisis. …

(a) Of persons or animals: deceitful, lying, treacherous; -- also as noun; (b) disloyal, seditious. …

Med. & surg. Designed to remove or cover up blemishes, beautifying. …

(a) Of persons, animals, bodies, parts of bodies: dead, no longer alive; also fig.; ben ded, to be dead; (b) of trees, flowers, etc.: dead. …

(a) Of weapons, armor: defensive; (b) med. & surg. of a bandage: preventing the spread of pus or other fluids; of a medicine or ointments: preventing the growth or spread of disease, preventive……

Med. (a) Capable of inducing or promoting perspiration; sudorific, diaphoretic; (b) a diaphoretic medicine. …

As adj.: (a) med. able to break down pathological matter, humors, etc.; medecin digestif, a digestive medicine, a drug that prepares pathological matter for evacuation; (b) physiol. having to do with……