Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to antimony, or partaking of its qualities; composed of antimony, or containing antimony as a principal ingredient.
- noun A preparation of antimony; a medicine in which antimony is a principal ingredient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to antimony.
- adjective a consisting of one part oxide of antimony and two parts phosphate of calcium; -- also called
James's powder .
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- adjective dated, chemistry Of or pertaining to
antimony . - noun Any drug or medical preparation containing
antimony .
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- adjective containing antimony
Etymologies
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Examples
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The old antimonial treatment still worked in East Africa, but MSF couldn't get enough of it to meet the burgeoning need, and Fungizone was out of the question in that setting.
CHASING BLACK FEVER 2007
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‘Avoid tea, madam,’ the reader has doubtless heard him say, ‘avoid tea, fried liver, antimonial wine, and bakers’ bread.
The Wrong Box 2004
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Take of mixture of ammoniacum 4 oz., syrup of squill 3 drms., antimonial wine 60 drops, wine 1/2 oz., mix and cork.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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Nor will it satisfactorily explain the auriferous antimonial silica veins of the New England district, New South Wales, in which quantities of angular and unaltered fragments of slate from the enclosing rocks are found imbedded in the quartz.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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One of them suffered with rheumatism of the back, and walked about bent like an old man; another, who had been to the front, was palsied in the left arm; and a third kept open an ulcer on the leg, by rubbing in a little antimonial ointment, which I sold him at five dollars a box, and bought at fifty cents.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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-- Take three cents 'worth of liquorice, three of rock candy, three of gum arabic, and put them into a quart of water; simmer them till thoroughly dissolved, then add three cents' worth paregoric, and a like quantity of antimonial wine.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Take of paregoric, liquorice and gum arabic, each an ounce, from fifty to one hundred drops of antimonial wine and two gills of hot water; mix them well together, and when cold, bottle, and cork it tight; take two tea-spoonsful at a time; if it should nauseate, give a smaller quantity.
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea
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The treatment consisted in keeping the bowels perfectly free and the skin moist, and this was generally obtained by calomel and antimonial powder combined, in the proportion of two grains, and three every third hour, and an occasional purge of neutral salts.
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In The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony are accurately described a large number of antimonial preparations, and as Basil was supposed to have written this work some time in the fifteenth century, these preparations were accordingly concluded to have been, for the most part, his own discoveries.
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Later investigations have shown that, in cases of antimonial poisoning, vomiting does not necessarily get rid of all the poison, and the convulsions in which Auguste Ballet died are symptomatic of poisoning either by morphia or antimony.
chained_bear commented on the word antimonial
Not to be confused with antinomial.
"'Gentlemen,' said Stephen to his assistants... 'I believe we may now cross off the antimonials, jalap and camphire, the eight yards of Welsh linen bandage, and the twelve yards of finer linen, which sets us up for the first month, barring the tourniquets, the mercury, and the small list of alexipharmics that Beale is sending over tomorrow.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 97
March 16, 2008