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medicament

American  
[muh-dik-uh-muhnt, med-i-kuh-] / məˈdɪk ə mənt, ˈmɛd ɪ kə- /

noun

  1. a healing substance; medicine; remedy.


medicament British  
/ mɪˈdɪkəmənt, ˈmɛdɪ- /

noun

  1. a medicine or remedy in a specified formulation

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of medicament

1535–45; < Latin medicāmentum remedy, physic, equivalent to medicā ( rī ) to cure + -mentum -ment. See medicate


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I have to bring every kind of instrument, every kind of medicament, everything you could think of in two bags: one large suitcase and one satchel that goes over my shoulders.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2017

The Journal, watchdog for the U. S. medical profession which examines every patent medicine and household medicament, has been sniffing at this proprietary bone for some time.

From Time Magazine Archive

So the family medicament had to be fetched at once; but Maksi, snatching it from the worthy spinster's hand, threw it violently to the ground, so that the whole carpet was bespattered with it.

From The Poor Plutocrats by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain

For which reason, in small diluted doses, the same medicament will curatively meet this train of symptoms when occurring as a morbid state.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

It is mercury alone that can make the body undecaying and immortal, as it is said— "Only this supreme medicament can make the body undecaying and imperishable."

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya

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