lambative

lambative

English

Etymology

Latin lambō (“I lick, lap”).

Adjective

lambative (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:

     Syrups and lambitive medicines.

Noun

lambative (plural lambatives)

1. (archaic) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises

     advising a Lambative of album

References

lambative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913