Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or causing vomiting.
- noun An emetic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Inducing
vomiting - noun medicine Something that induces
vomiting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Termite discovers the words vomica, vomit, vomitive, vomitory, vomitorium, vomiturition, and vomitus in the dictionary, she comments that, Page 1,355 has got to be the best page of the dictionary ever.
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It is a most violent purge and often acts as a vomitive.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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It is a most violent purge and often acts as a vomitive.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Even now, the very name of the gelatinous monsters who had come slurping Earthward from the general direction of the Coal Sack aroused vomitive memories.
The Wind from The Sun Clarke, Arthur C. 1962
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In the opinion of the Reverend John Clayton, Virginia doctors were so prone to associate all drugs with vomiting or other forms of purging that they even thought of aromatic spirits as an inferior "vomitive."
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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But the Sulphur of Antimony which is vehemently vomitive, and the strongly scented Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol inclines me to think that not only Mineral Sulphurs differ from Vegetable ones, but also from one another, retaining much of the nature of their Concretes.
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One drop of the Florentine 'oglio di tobacco' being again given to a dog, it proved stupefying and vomitive, as before "(Birch's" History of the Royal Society, "vol, ii., pp. 42, 43).] drawn by one of the Society do the same effect, and is judged to be the same thing with the poyson both in colour and smell, and effect.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 35: May/June 1665 Samuel Pepys 1668
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One drop of the Florentine 'oglio di tobacco' being again given to a dog, it proved stupefying and vomitive, as before "(Birch's" History of the Royal Society, "vol, ii., pp. 42, 43).] drawn by one of the Society do the same effect, and is judged to be the same thing with the poyson both in colour and smell, and effect.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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One drop of the Florentine 'oglio di tobacco' being again given to a dog, it proved stupefying and vomitive, as before "(Birch's" History of the Royal Society, "vol, ii., pp. 42, 43).] drawn by one of the Society do the same effect, and is judged to be the same thing with the poyson both in colour and smell, and effect.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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One drop of the Florentine 'oglio di tobacco' being again given to a dog, it proved stupefying and vomitive, as before "(Birch's" History of the Royal Society, "vol, ii., pp. 42, 43).] drawn by one of the Society do the same effect, and is judged to be the same thing with the poyson both in colour and smell, and effect.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1665 Pepys, Samuel 1665
palooka commented on the word vomitive
It's a real word! Defined as "...relating to or causing vomiting. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting, an emetic."
January 6, 2007