medicamentally
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From medicament + -ally.
Adverb
[edit]medicamentally (comparative more medicamentally, superlative most medicamentally)
- In terms of medicinal properties. [from 17th c.]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiously of Sundry Other Common Tenents, Concerning Minerall and Terreous Bodies, Which Examined, Prove Either False or Dubious”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 85:
- […] the ſubſtance of gold is indeed invincible by the powerfulleſt action of naturall heat, and that not only alimentally in a ſubſtantiall mutation, but alſo medicamentally in any corporeall converſion;