oppilative

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English

Etymology

Compare French opilatif. See oppilate.

Adjective

oppilative (comparative more oppilative, superlative most oppilative)

  1. (obsolete) Obstructive.
    • 1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American His Travail by Sea and Land:
      And if some have found it oppilative, it hath come by the too too much use of it ; as when one drinkes over much wine , instead of comforting and warming himselfe , he breeds and nourisheth cold diseases

Noun

oppilative (plural oppilatives)

  1. (obsolete) A medicine that obstructs, or closes the pores.

References

Italian

Adjective

oppilative f

  1. feminine plural of oppilativo