revellent

English

Etymology

Latin revellens.

Adjective

revellent (comparative more revellent, superlative most revellent)

1. (obsolete, medicine) Causing revulsion; revulsive.
   • 1855, “Report on the Diseases of Missouri and Iowa”, in The Transactions of the American Medical Association, volume VIII, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for the [American Medical] Association, by T. K. and P. G. Collins, →OCLC, page 103:

     The local remoræ of blood which occur in cholera infantum here, will not bear, as a general practice, the abstraction of blood for their relief; they are more under the control of revellent remedies, not of a depletive kind.

References

• “revellent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

revellent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of revellō