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

(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. …

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. …

(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. …

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

(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……

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……

Med. Subject to disease, diseased. …

Med. Of a physician: belonging to the empirical school. …

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

Having (personal) experience (in or of something); experienced, wise through experience. …

Med. Of dressings, bandages, medicinal property, etc.: serving to press out or expel, expulsive. …

Med. Having the property of cleansing by expelling impure matter from the body. …

(a) Deceitful; fallacious, false; (b) med.?abnormal, improper. …

(a) Hot, burning, fiery; fervent hete, burning heat; (b) fervent oil, hot oil; fervent water, scalding water; (c) fervent ground (lond). …

(a) Porous (stone); (b) med. like a fistula. …

(a) In due or proper form; according to established procedure; orderly, correct, regular, conventional; formal argument, argument following the rules of logic; (b) ?beautiful, shapely. …

Med. Tending to break up or dissolve something, acting as a solvent. …

(a) Of persons: given to fraud or lying, dishonest, treacherous; (b) of speech, action, intention, etc.: characterized by deceit; accomplished by trickery; dishonest, deceitful; (c) of a quality……

(a) Sandy, gravelly, stony; (b) med. of flesh: lumpy, like gravel. …

(a) Med. Of food: increasing moisture in the body, diluent; (b) surg. of medicines: moistening, increasing moisture. …

Med. & surg. Consisting of humors or of pus; filled with humors or with pus. …

(a) Med. Of humors, heat: improperly compounded, unhealthy; also, excessive; of a protrusion: pathological; (b) lacking normal human feelings or attitudes; unrestrained, immoral, inhuman; (c)……

Med. Heated with steam. …

Med. (a) Softening; (b) a softening agent. …

Med. Softening; lenitif clisteri(e, a softening enema. …

(a) Capable of movement; of living creatures: capable of independent motion; (b) in motion, moving, moving about; ready to move or travel, mobile, transient; (c) active, energetic; agile, dexterous……

Med. & surg. (a) Soothing, lenitive; (b) as noun: a soothing preparation, palliative. …

(a) Moist, wet; moistened with tears, blood, saliva, etc.; moist issue, vapor; moist fruit, fig.?luscious fruit; (b) of a land or region: well-irrigated; of a plant: well-watered; maken moist, to……

Med. (a) Irritating, smarting, stinging; (b) corrosive, caustic. …

Med. & surg. (a) Distressing, tormenting; (b) corrosive; as noun: a caustic or corrosive medicine. …

Med. & surg. Cleansing. …

(a) Obedient; willing to serve someone; also, willing to fulfill an obligation; obedient to, obedient unto; (b) as noun: obedient person; (c) obedient to (unto), subject to the rule of (sb. or sth.)……

(a) Obedient; dutiful; as noun: an obedient subject; (b) obeisaunt to, obedient to (sb. or sth.); compliant with (someone's requests); subject or governed by (sb. or sth.); obeisaunt in, obedient to……

(a) Of matter or a quality of matter: capable of being acted upon, passive as opposed to active; (b) of one's relation to an attitude or judgment: receptive, passive; passif cursing, the suffering of……

(a) Med. & surg. Of a treatment, regimen, etc.: serving to prevent or protect against a disease or morbid condition; preventive, prophylactic; also fig.; preservatif of; (b) of a treatment: tending to……

In phrases: (a) primitif chirche, chirche primitif, the early Christian church; primitif chirche of engelond; (b) med. & surg. cause primitif, a non-corporeal cause of a disease. …

(a) Belonging or pertaining to oneself, a person, or a thing; privately owned; private, personal, individual; intrinsic; (b) propre in, inherent in (a position of honor); propre to, belonging to……

(a) Guilty of the sin of Pride; haughty, arrogant; also, obstinate, rebellious; (b) proudest of pride, supremely proud; proud as lucifer; proud herte, proud heart; -- also as surname or epithet; maken……

(a) Unadulterated, unmixed with anything, uncontaminated; pur of, cleansed of (dirt); (b) of metals: unalloyed, refined; of fur: all of one color; of wine: clear; also, undiluted; of medicines……

(a) Med. Having the property of cleansing by expelling impure matter from the body; (b) as noun: a cathartic, a laxative. …

Med. Conducing to putrefaction, putrefying. …

(a) Med. Putrid, festering, gangrenous; of a fever: caused by the putrefaction of humors; (b) of dates:?overripe, spoiled. …

Med. Of a medicine: cooling. …

Med. Having the power to drive back excessive concentrations of a humor and thus reduce swelling or inflammation. …

(a) Filled (with sth.), full; filled (with men); covered (with water, gems); (b) of persons: filled with food or drink, sated, satisfied; also, provided (with delicacies); also, spiritually satisfied……

Med. Having the power to dissipate collected humors. …

Med. Containing a distillate of rose petals; mel rosat [see also mel n.(1)(b)]; oile rosat, oil of roses, a medicinal oil made by steeping rose petals in olive oil [cp. oile rose (rosete), s.v. oil(e……

Med. Purulent, containing pus. …

(a) Saving, protecting; (b) theol. capable of being saved; also, as noun: the savable, those who can be saved; (c) med. curable, able to be healed. …

Med. Tending to alleviate pain, soothing. …

(a) Holy, divinely inspired, worthy of worship; also in oaths; in personification: seint treuth; (b) in phrases: for (par, etc.) seint charite, for the sake of charity; -- common in entreaties and……

(a) Blameless, innocent; upright; guileless, artless; (b) of the eyes:?innocent, not sinful; ?sound, healthy; -- used fig. …

(a) Harsh to the taste, sharp, sourish; also, used of taste: sapoure stiptik; (b) med. of medicinal ingredients, medicines, etc.: astringent. …

Med. Of an ailment: involving the stomach; (b) anat. stomacale partie, a section of the abdomen spanning the stomach. …

(a) Of sewing, a binding, bond, etc.: tight, tightly pulled or bound; (b) of a garment, ring, clothing, etc.: tight-fitting; streit clothed (gloved), wearing tight-fitting clothing (gloves); streit……

Chiefly phil. or theol. (a) Pertaining to the very nature of a thing, essential; substancial forme, forme substancial, the principle of existence in a substance and the source of all that is essential……

(a) Exceeding what is necessary or normal; (b) useless, worthless, vain; also, immoderate, excessive; ?foolish [quot. a1450 St.Kath.(3)]; (c) of a person: extravagant; also, of a house: ?extravagantly……

(a) Inclined to believe ill, jealous; full of suspicions, mistrustful; ben suspecious to, to have suspicions of (sb.); (b) regarded with suspicion, distrusted; liable to excite suspicion, exciting……

(a) Open to suspicion of wrongdoing, liable to arouse suspicion; exciting suspicion; ben suspect of, to be open to suspicion of (sth.); refl. maken suspect of, lay oneself open to suspicion of (sth.)……

(a) Of a person, a person's disposition or nature, an attribute, etc.: mild, gentle; restrained, self-controlled, prudent; (b) of a person, a person's eating, physical activity, etc.: mod erate……

(a) Of a person: restrained in conduct; of a person's behavior: temperate, moderate; (b) of sleep, diet: moderate; of a bath: of moderate warmth; of the quality of heat in food, drink, or a bodily……

(a) Turbid, murky; also, full of impurities, thickened, gross; of moving water: turbulent, churning; also fig. and in fig. context; (b) physiol. & med. of the brain: dense, not subtle; also, impaired……

(a) Without contents, empty; also fig. and in fig. context; of a river: empty of water, etc.; of a pen: empty of ink (b) of the stomach or part of the intestinal tract: without food, empty; of the……

Med. (a) emetic; medicine vomis; medicine not vomis, an anti-nausea medication; nux vomita [see nux n.]; (b) ?Containing pus, purulent. …