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Webster 1913 Edition

Carminative

Car-min′ative

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Adj.
[NL.
carminativus
(1622), fr.
carminare
to card, hence to cleanse, fr.
carmen
a card for freeing wool or flax from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter: cf. F.
carminatif
.]
Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.
“Carminative hot seeds.”
Dunglison.

Car-min′a-tive

,
Noun.
A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence.

Webster 1828 Edition

Carminative

CARMINATIVE

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Noun.
A medicine, which tends to expel wind, or to remedy colic and flatulencies.

Definition 2024

carminative

carminative

English

Adjective

carminative ‎(comparative more carminative, superlative most carminative)

  1. Relieving discomfort of gas in the digestive tract.
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See also

Noun

carminative ‎(plural carminatives)

  1. (medicine) A drug or substance that induces the releasing of gas from the digestive tract.
    • 1926, Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Ch. 9):
      But Master Nathaniel was indifferent to these manifestations of unpopularity. Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Italian

Adjective

carminative

  1. feminine plural of carminativo

Etymology

From Latin carminare ‎(“to card, hence to cleanse”), from carmen ‎(“a card for freeing wool or flax from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter”).

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