clyster
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of clyster
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek klystēr, equivalent to *klyd- (base of klýzein to rinse out; cf. cataclysm) + -tēr agent noun suffix
Example Sentences
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The17th Century was the Golden Age of the enema, or clyster as it was then called.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shall I speak, dear Warner? let me now; it does so wamble within me, just like a clyster, i'faith la, and I can keep it no longer, for my heart.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
I paid ten st. at the apothecary's, and gave his wife fourteen st. for the clyster and himself....
From Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore
"Item, on the 26th, a carminative clyster to cure the flatulence of Mr. Argan, thirty sous."
From The Imaginary Invalid by Charles Heron Wall
Molière, in his seventeenth-century satires on the European medical profession, ridicules the excessive use of the clyster.
From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes
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