minorative

发音

UK /ˈmaɪnəɹeɪtɪv/

词形变化

minoratives 复数 minoratives

别名

minoratyve

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A gently laxative medicine.

    废旧

    When […] wee feare lest nature faint before perfect concoction, we may sometimes use a gentle minorative.

    Others give minoratives more frequently.

adj.
  1. 1.

    That diminishes or attenuates

  2. 2.

    Gently laxative.

    废旧

    Clysters sometymes do supplye the rowme of minoratyve medicines.

    Nothing but minorative apozems should be ordered.

词源

From the late-Middle French minoratif, minorative (“that diminishes or lessens”, of a medicine “mildly laxative”; as a noun “a mild laxative”), from minorer (“to diminish the importance [of]”). Equivalent to minorate (“diminish”, “lessen”) + -ive. Compare the post-Classical (i.e. 9th C.) Latin minōrātīvus.

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