chalybeate

American  

[kuh-lib-ee-it, -eyt] / kəˈlɪb i ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

1. containing or impregnated with salts of iron, as a mineral spring or medicine.

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noun

1. a chalybeate water, medicine, or the like.

chalybeate British  

/ kəˈlɪbɪɪt /

adjective

1. containing or impregnated with iron salts

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noun

1. any drug containing or tasting of iron

Etymology

Origin of chalybeate

1625–35; < New Latin chalybēātus, Latin chalybē ( ïus ) of steel (< Greek chalybēís, equivalent to chalybē-, variant stem of chályps iron + -is adj. suffix) + -ātus -ate ¹; see chalybite

Example Sentences

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chalybeate

Waters thus named owe their properties to iron in combination generally with carbonic acid; and as the latter is usually in excess, they are often acidulous as well as chalybeate.

From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by Holdsworth, J. H.

Even the advantage of these was neutralized by the chalybeate, which acted with disconcerting abruptness upon a healthy body unused to medicinal spurs.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

I instituted, therefore, a rigour of exercise and diet, I insisted upon the sacred character of the Pump Room, I glorified the taking of chalybeate by a ritual at once subtle and magnificent.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

There are chalybeate springs and a hydropathic establishment in the town.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

The mineral waters in the state are chiefly sulphurous and chalybeate, with the exception, I believe, of one or two of the saline class.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt