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1. apocrif, -a, -um adj. & n.

Additional spellings: apocrifa, apocrifum
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Of unknown authorship or doubtful authenticity, or so regarded by the Church; not authentic, apocryphal; an apocryphon. …

2. apoloǧetik adj. as n.

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A formal defense, apology. …

3. austēre, austē̆rne adj.

Additional spellings: austerne
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(a) Of persons, speech, manner: harsh, severe, stern; (b) rigorously moral, austere; (c) grim, fierce. …

4. caustik adj. & n.

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(a) Of medicines: having the property of burning organic tissue by chemical action; strongly corrosive, caustic; (b) a caustic medicine. …

5. coccin adj. & n.

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Scarlet; a scarlet fabric or garment. …

6. colagog adj. as n.

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A medicine promoting the discharge of bile from the system. …

7. dīaforē̆tic adj. & n.

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

8. dīaletik adj.

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Characterized by the dialectic method of probable reasoning; -- as noun, personified. …

9. dī̆ūretik adj.

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(a) Of plants, medicines: inducing or promoting urination; (b) as noun: a medicine capable of promoting urination. …

10. epatī̆k adj.

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Med. and anat. (a) Affected with disease of the liver; (b) epatik veine the basilic vein; = epatica n., sense 1. …

11. epicēn(e adj.

Additional spellings: epicene
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Lat. gram. Having but one form for masculine and feminine gender; common (gender). …

12. erisipilades n. & adj.

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(a) A disease involving inflammation of the skin (i.e. an aposteme) caused by aberration of the 'humors' choler and blood, choler predominating in the mixture; (b) having in part the nature and……

13. hērōicus adj.

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Noble, magnanimous. …

14. idrō̆pik adj. & n.

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(a) Dropsical; of a person: suffering from the dropsy; of water, humors: caused by dropsy; (b) fig. insatiable; (c) as noun: dropsical persons. …

15. nardine n. & adj.

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Nard, spikenard; of nard or spikenard. …

16. orthodoxe adj.

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Orthodox, true, correct; orthodoxe chirche, orthodoxe feith. …

17. podagric adj.

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In phrase: podagric siknesses, attacks of podagra. …

18. prassine adj.

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Of a leek-green color; colre prassine, a sub-variety of unnatural choler, green choler. …

19. reumatik adj.

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(a) Of the nature of rheum; consisting of rheum; (b) caused by rheum; (c) suffering from a disease caused by rheum; (d) of air: moist, humid. …

20. sandarik adj.

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Of a red or red-orange colour, like the dyes produced from madder root. …

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