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English
Etymology
Latin revellens.
Adjective
revellent (comparative more revellent, superlative most revellent)
- (obsolete, medicine) Causing revulsion; revulsive.
1855, “Report on the Diseases of Missouri and Iowa”, in The Transactions of the American Medical Association, volume VIII, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for the [American Medical] Association, by T. K. and P. G. Collins, →OCLC, page 103:The local remoræ of blood which occur in cholera infantum here, will not bear, as a general practice, the abstraction of blood for their relief; they are more under the control of revellent remedies, not of a depletive kind.
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Latin
Verb
revellent
- third-person plural future active indicative of revellō