medicamentary
English
Etymology
From medicament + -ary.
Adjective
medicamentary (not comparable)
- Of or relating to medicament; medicinal.
- 1838, James Prinsep, “Examination of the Inscription at Dhauli in Cuttack”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 7, page 452:
- This establishment was probably a kind of hospital, and if Mr. Kittoe's conjectures as to the small rock mortars be correct, it must have been amply provided with medicamentary concoctions!
- 1861, Wm. W. Morland, “On "The Morbid Effects of the Retention in the Blood of the Elements of the Urinary Secretion"”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, volume 41, page 131:
- How is it eliminated? This is undecided. A small quantity only is absorbed even in medicamentary usage.