medicamentally

English

Etymology

From medicament + -ally.

Adverb

medicamentally (comparative more medicamentally, superlative most medicamentally)

  1. In terms of medicinal properties. [from 17th c.]
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiously of Sundry Other Common Tenents, Concerning Minerall and Terreous Bodies, Which Examined, Prove Either False or Dubious”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], London: [] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, [], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 85:
      [] the ſubſtance of gold is indeed invincible by the powerfulleſt action of naturall heat, and that not only alimentally in a ſubſtantiall mutation, but alſo medicamentally in any corporeall converſion;
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