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English
Adjective
alexiterial (comparative more alexiterial, superlative most alexiterial)
- Synonym of alexiteric
1753, The Plain English Dispensatory, page 9:The Herb contains many volatile Parts, which will mount over the Still-head: It enters the strong alexiterial Water, as well as the simple; and the Seeds are in the compound Aniseed Water.
1831, John Hancok, Obserbations on the origin and treatment or cholera, page 20:The vivifying and alexiterial powers of this gas have been described by Sir H. Davy, by Wedgewood, and other distinguished philosophers; all of whom bear testimony to its extraordinary invigorating powers, as exalting the vital functions to the highest, and that more permanently than any other stimulus.
2011, Leo Hollis, The Phoenix:Hodges was a local physician who was called out to attend to a patient during the Christmas holidays: 'to a young man in a fever, who after two days course of alexiterial Medicines, had two risings about the bigness of a nutmeg broke out, one on each tight'; the fortunate man survived.