menstruous

American  

[men-stroo-uhs, -struhs] / ˈmɛn stru əs, -strəs /

adjective

1. pertaining to menstruation.

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Etymology

Origin of menstruous

1375–1425; late Middle English: menstruating < Latin mēnstruus monthly; menstruate, -ous

Example Sentences

If it be taken inwardly, it stops the spitting of Blood, and the Dysentery or Bloody-Flux; as also the H�morrhoidal and Menstruous Fluxes; the Dose being from half a Dram to two Drams, in Knot-Grass-Water.

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Amongst the Maoris, if a man touched a menstruous woman, he would be taboo 'an inch thick.'

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Who casts these out of his sight as unclean and menstruous things?

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Or as the prophet Isaiah expresseth it, "Ye shall defile the covering of the graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth, thou shalt say unto it, get thee hence."

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At any rate, although the birth of the child would seem in every respect except in the presence of blood to be more closely connected with the phenomena of pregnancy than with that of menstruation, as a matter of fact the taboos on the woman in child-bed were intimately associated with those on menstruous women.

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