SEDATIVE
\sˈɛdətˌɪv], \sˈɛdətˌɪv], \s_ˈɛ_d_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]\
Definitions of SEDATIVE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize
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A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.
By Oddity Software
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Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize
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A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Calming, quieting 2. An agent which quiets nervous excitement; the sedatives are designated, according to the part or the organ upon which their specific action is exerted, cardiac, cerebral, nervous, respiratory, spinal, etc.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A remedy that allays irritation.
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Allaying irritation; composing.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Moderating irritation; assuaging pain.
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A medicine which allays irritability and assuages pain.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Allaying activity and excitement.
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A remedy that allays excitement.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Producing a calm and quiet condition of mind and body, especially reducing excessive action of the heart; as a n., a s. medicine. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. A remedy which allays irritability, and irritative activity or pain.
