lambative

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English

Etymology

Latin lambō (“I lick, lap”).

Adjective

lambative (not comparable)

(archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
  Syrups and lambitive medicines.

Noun

lambative (plural lambatives)

(archaic) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R Royston , and B Took, , →OCLC:
  advising a Lambative of album

References

“lambative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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