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1. abbāciāl adj.

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Pertaining to an abbey or an abbess.

2. ablūtī̆f adj.

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Cleansing.

3. abstersīve adj.

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Of medicines: able to remove pus or other impurities from a wound or sore; cleansing, detergent.

4. accidentāl adj.

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(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.

5. acetọ̄se adj. as n.

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Sorrel (Rumex acetosa).

6. acētǒus adj.

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(a) Sour to the taste or smell, acid; (b) milk acetous, soured milk; sirup acetous, a decoction of honey or sugar and vinegar; water acetous, water mixed with vinegar; (c) physiol. sour.

7. acūtīves adj. (plural) as n.

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Medicines for sharpening or improving (the hearing).

8. adminiculātī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: adminiculative
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(a) Supplementary; (b) a supplement.

9. admittīble adj.

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(a) Of reasoning: acceptable, admissible; of an action: permissible; (b) law of persons: allowed, entitled, having the right (to defend a case in a certain manner).

10. adnect adj.

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Adjoining.

11. adustī̆f, -ī̆ve adj.

Additional spellings: adustive
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Burning, scorching; of medicines: able to burn up (or destroy with heat) excess humors in the body.

12. affectūā̆l, -ē̆l adj.

Additional spellings: affectuel
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Sincere, heartfelt.

13. aggregā̆tī̆f, -ī̆ve adj.

Additional spellings: aggregative
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Of medicines: having the property of bringing together, or closing, the lips of a wound.

14. aǧīble adj.

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Proper to do, seemly.

15. albificātīve adj.

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Alch. Having the power to whiten.

16. alkalī, alkalīn n. & adj.

Additional spellings: alkalin
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An alkaline substance obtained from the calcined ashes of plants: soda (from sea plants), potash (from land plants); sal alkali(n.

17. allectīf adj. as n.

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An inducement.

18. allō̆cāte n. & adj.

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Law A writ authorizing payment (as of a pension or allowance); writ allocate.

19. alterāble adj.

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Changeable, subject to deterioration.

20. alteratī̆f, -īve adj.

Additional spellings: alterative
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(a) Causing or promoting alteration in quality (hot-cold, moist-dry); -- as noun: an 'alterative' medicine; (b) alteratif vertu, the natural faculty of altering 'quality' in the body.

21. ambulātī̆f adj.

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Of ulcers: creeping, serpiginous.

22. amfractūǒus adj.

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Winding.

23. amphibille adj.

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Ambiguous.

24. ampullous adj.

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Bubbly, frothy.

25. anagoǧik adj.

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Of Biblical exegesis: highest or mystical (interpretation or meaning).

26. aneurismāl adj. as n.

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Aneurism.

27. anniversārie adj. & n.

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The anniversary (day) of a person's death, memorial day; the observance of that day; holden, kepen, observen anniversarie.

28. antartik adj. & n.

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(a) (pol) antartik, the south pole of the heavens or the earth; also, the star marking its position (see south sterre); paralellus antarticus, the antarctic circle; (b) the southern half of the sky or…

29. antecēdent adj. & n.

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

30. anti(s)pasticon adj. as n.

Additional spellings: antispasticon
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= antispasis.

31. apertī̆f, -īve adj. & n.

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

32. apostatā n. (& adj.)

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One who abandons or renounces an established religion or an article of faith; an apostate; tyrant apostata.

33. apostemāl adj.

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Swollen, inflamed.

34. apostemǒus adj.

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Inflamed, festering.

35. apprehensīve adj.

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Capable of perceiving or comprehending.

36. apprōpriāble adj.

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Theol. appropriately applied, attributable.

37. appurtenaunt adj. & n.

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(a) Belonging (to a country, a manor) as a possession or a right; (b) as noun: what belongs to or forms a subsidiary part (of a manor, etc.).

38. aquǒus, -ọ̄se adj.

Additional spellings: aquose
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Phys. & physiol. Moist (said of one of the four qualities attributed to matter and to organisms); aquous aposteme, a swelling filled with serous fluid; aquous hernia, such a swelling in the scrotum.

39. archidiaconāl adj.

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Of or belonging to an archedeken.

40. argūmentātī̆f adj.

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Syllogistic, sophistic.

41. artēriāl adj.

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Having characteristics of an arterie, -- applied to the pulmonary artery and to the pulmonary vein.

42. artetīk, -ica adj. & n.

Additional spellings: artetica, arthetica, arthretica, aretica
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Arthritic, rheumatic; arthritis, rheumatism; goute artetik, arthritis, gout.

43. artīk adj. & n.

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(a) belonging to the celestial north; pol artik, the north pole of the heavens; specif., the North Star as marking its position; under the pol artik, under the North Star, in the North; of artik, of…

44. ascellar adj. as n.

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(a) The axillary vein; (b) a brachial vein.

45. aspectūāl adj.

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Pert. to the aspect of a planet.

46. assīgnāble adj.

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Susceptible of being pointed out, determined, specified, or attributed.

47. assumptīf adj.

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Of bloodletting: by withdrawing 'humours' from the opposite part of the body.

48. ā̆sūr n.(1) & adj.

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The blue stone lapis lazuli; enamel made of powdered lapis lazuli.

49. attractī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: attractive
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Of medicines: (a) having the property of drawing out or eliminating morbid or foreign matter from the body; (b) as noun.

50. audī̆tīve adj.

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Pertaining to the sense of hearing.

51. augmastik adj.

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In phrase febre augmastik, a fever that builds to a crisis then subsides, 'one of three varieties of [sinoch] .. [in which] high body temperature [is] said to gradually fall' [Norri].

52. barbar adj. & n.

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(a) Foreign, non-Greek; (b) heathen, non-Christian; -- perh. with implications of inhumanity; (c) barbar tonge [see quots.].

53. barbarī̆n(e n. & adj.

Additional spellings: barbarine
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(a) A foreigner, barbarian, heathen; a non-Greek, a non-Roman; (b) foreign, non-Greek; also, rugged [quot.Chauliac].

54. basilic(a n. & adj.

Additional spellings: basilica
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The basilic vein; basilic vein.

55. bīgam adj. & n.

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(a) Having two wives; (b) one who marries a widow; married twice (also fig. of Christ).

56. bothorāl adj.

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Protruding and bunchy; pustules bothorales, small pustules clustered together.

57. bothorāt adj.

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Of pustules: protruding and bunchy, clustered together.

58. brigǒus adj. (& n.)

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(a) Intricate, subject to dispute; (b) as noun: a quarrelsome person.

59. brusk adj.

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Of wine: harsh-tasting.

60. cacochīme adj.

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Full of unhealthy humors; -- also as noun.

61. caffatīn n. & adj.

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In phrases denoting a type of sugar, orig. from Caffa in the Crimea: sugre (de) caffatin.

62. calefactī̆f adj. & n.

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

63. cancrǒus adj.

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(a) Cancerous; of flesh: afflicted with cancer; of an ulcer, a disease: resembling cancer; (b) of ulcers in the mouth: ?resembling cancer, ?resembling canker sores.

64. canoniāl adj.

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(a) In accordance with ecclesiastical law, canonical; (b) belonging to the canon of the Bible; canonial epistel, one of the Catholic Epistles.

65. canonicāl adj.

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According to ecclesiastical law.

66. canūlāt adj. & n.

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(a) Hollow, tubular; (b) a tubular instrument.

67. canūlǒus adj.

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Hollow.

68. capitūlēr adj.

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Of an ecclesiastical assembly or chapter, capitular.

69. caprinōse adj.

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Goat-like; of vapor: stinking.

70. cathesiāl adj.

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

71. catholī̆k adj.

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(a) Of the doctrines of the Roman Church: universally accepted or to be so accepted; true (faith); (b) of persons: having the 'true' faith; (c) catholik doctour, a Church Father.

72. cauteriatīve adj.

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Cauterizing, caustic.

73. cauterizant adj.

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Cauterizing, caustic.

74. cauterizātīve adj. & n.

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(a) Cauterizing; (b) a cauterizing substance.

75. cepǒus adj.

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Resembling tallow in color, consistency, or appearance.

76. charitātī̆ve adj.

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Benevolent, beneficent.

77. cicātricāl adj.

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Scar-like.

78. cicatrizatī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: cicatrizative
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(a) Promoting cicatrization; (b) a medicine promoting cicatrization.

79. clamǒurǒus adj.

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(a) Clamorous; (b) extremely painful; clamourous goute, an extremely painful kind of gout.

80. clarificātī̆f adj.

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Of medicines: having the quality of making (the eyesight) clear.

81. clāvā̆le adj.

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Anat. Nail-like, nail-shaped; clavale bones, certain small bones or bony projections near the ear.

82. cochie adj. & n.

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A remedy for relieving 'excess humors'; pillule cochie.

83. cōēquāl adj.

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(a) Equal in rank or precedence; as noun: an equal; (b) equal in intensity, even.

84. cōessenciāl adj.

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Of the same essence.

85. cōēternāl adj.

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Jointly eternal (with God, or with the other members of the Trinity), coeternal.

86. cōēterne adj.

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Coeternal.

87. colliquatī̆f adj. as n.

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A medicine having the effect of dissolving or wasting away the solids of the body.

88. cǒmfortatī̆f adj. & n.

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Heartening, cheering, consoling.

89. comminatorie adj.

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Minatory.

90. commodiǒus adj.

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(a) Fertile (land, soil); marked by fertility, prosperous; (b) convenient, profitable, advantageous, useful, fit for purpose; (c) pleasant; affable.

91. commū̆nicāble adj.

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Communicating, i.e. shedding water into streams.

92. commū̆nicatī̆f adj.

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(a) Diffusive; (b) contagious.

93. compassī̆f, -ī̆ve adj.

Additional spellings: compassive
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(a) Affectionate, compassionate; (b) prompted by compassion; (c) induced by a morbid condition in another part of the body.

94. compassionāl adj.

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Of a cause of disease: introduced, induced (not local).

95. compendiǒus adj.

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Of a treatise or narrative, or of an author's presentation of a subject: (a) brief, succinct; (b) comprehensive though brief, concise, compact; (c) comprehensive, inclusive.

96. compescitī̆f adj.

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Restraining the accumulation of fluids.

97. composicionāl adj.

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Of a disease: affecting an organ [which is physiologically complex].

98. condistinct adj.

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Distinct as to appearance but not as to 'substance'.

99. conjectūrative adj.

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Conjectural, not certain.

100. consumptī̆f adj. & n.

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(a) Of a medicine: having the property of reducing or eliminating morbid 'humors' or tissue; (b) a medicine having this property.