medicament

American  

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

noun

1. a healing substance; medicine; remedy.

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medicament British  

/ ˈmɛdɪ-, ˌmɛdɪkəˈmɛntəl, mɪˈdɪkəmənt /

noun

1. a medicine or remedy in a specified formulation

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Other Word Forms

• medicamental adjective
• medicamentous adjective

Etymology

Origin of medicament

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

Example Sentences

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

Prepared steel is a medicament proper for enlarged spleen.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

There was a cheerful warmth everywhere; the air was like an elixir; the pungent smell of a pine-tree at the door gave a kind of medicament to the indrawn breath.

From Northern Lights by Parker, Gilbert

To imagine that the same mode of procedure, or “method,” is applicable to all voices, is as unreasonable as to expect that the same medicament will apply to all maladies.

From Style in Singing by Haslam, W. E.