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. …