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lambative

lambative adjective: taken by licking with the tongue.

Adjective

lambative (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
    • Syrups and lambitive medicines.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Noun

lambative (plural lambatives)

  1. (archaic) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.
    • advising a Lambative of album1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC

Forms of lambative

plurallambatives

Origin of lambative

Latin lambō (“to lick, lap”).

Questions about lambative

What does lambative mean?
Lambative means taken by licking with the tongue.
What part of speech is lambative?
Lambative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near lambative in the dictionary

  1. lambasters
  2. lambastes
  3. lambasting
  4. lambastings
  5. lambasts
  6. lambative
  7. lambatives
  8. Lambayeque
  9. lambburger
  10. lambburgers
  11. lambchop

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