chalybeate

[ kuh-lib-ee-it, -eyt ]

adjective

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

noun

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

chalybeate

/ kəˈlɪbɪɪt /

adjective

1. containing or impregnated with iron salts

noun

1. any drug containing or tasting of iron

Word History and Origins

Origin of chalybeate¹

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; chalybite

Word History and Origins

Origin of chalybeate¹

C17: from New Latin chalybēātus, ultimately from khalups iron

Example Sentences

Both are used as chalybeate tonics, either in the form of pills or dissolved in hot water.

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The antidote was excellent; cooling, fortifying; 'quite a chalybeate,' her aunt would say, and she was thankful.

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Quickly she hurried away and found the miller seated on his favourite rustic bench near the chalybeate spring.

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It was, however, observed, that chalybeate-springs were numerous close to the water's edge.

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It is a tonic or chalybeate, and, as this goes to press, is being retubed.

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