carminative
Americannoun
adjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of carminative
1645–55; < Late Latin carmināt ( us ), past participle of carmināre to purify ( Latin: to card (wool), verbal derivative of carmen (attested only in Late Latin ) comb for carding wool) + -ive
Example Sentences
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Remington's practice of pharmacy128 retains a formula for Dalby's Carminative under the former National formulary title of Carminative Mixture.
From Old English Patent Medicines in America by Griffenhagen, George B.
They were British Oil and Dalby's Carminative, as prepared by the South Carolina branch of a large pharmaceutical manufacturing concern.
From Old English Patent Medicines in America by Griffenhagen, George B.
Poetry itself was, with most parents, a dram, to be given, like Dalby’s Carminative, as a pis-aller, when children could not possibly be kept quiet by Miss Edgeworth or Mrs. Mangnall.
From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles
This compendium, indeed, lists not one, but three different recipes for British Oil, and the formulas by which Dalby's Carminative may be compounded run on to a total of eight.
From Old English Patent Medicines in America by Griffenhagen, George B.
Dewee's Carminative 1 ounce Dose: One week old, three to five drops; one month old, five to ten drops; three months old, ten to twenty drops.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
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