inirritative
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- + irritative.
Adjective
[edit]inirritative (comparative more inirritative, superlative most inirritative)
- (archaic) Not accompanied with excitement.
- 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
- The inirritative fever differs from the puerperal and from the hectic fever, by the permanent inactivity of the stomach
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inirritative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)