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English
Etymology
From medicament + -ary.
Adjective
medicamentary (not comparable)
- Of or relating to medicament; medicinal.
1838, James Prinsep, “Examination of the Inscription at Dhauli in Cuttack”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 7, page 452:This establishment was probably a kind of hospital, and if Mr. Kittoe's conjectures as to the small rock mortars be correct, it must have been amply provided with medicamentary concoctions!
1861, Wm. W. Morland, “On "The Morbid Effects of the Retention in the Blood of the Elements of the Urinary Secretion"”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, volume 41, page 131:How is it eliminated? This is undecided. A small quantity only is absorbed even in medicamentary usage.