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mittent

mittent adjective: emitting harmful humors.

Adjective

mittent (comparative more mittent, superlative most mittent)

  1. (obsolete) Emitting harmful humors.
    • The symptomes of the imagination, sc. the Vertigo, which is […] cured, […] if from the liver, spleen, womb, or whole body, according to the mittent and recipient part, by phlebotomy, catharticks, revulsion and roborants […]1661, Robert Lovell, “Anthropologia, &c. Of Man. &c.”, in ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All...
    • Vicious Humours peccant in quantity or quality are either thrust forth by the Part mittent,[…]or attracted by the Part recipient.1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises

Forms of mittent

comparativemore mittent
superlativemost mittent

Origin of mittent

From Latin mittens, present participle of mittere (“to send”).

Questions about mittent

What does mittent mean?
Mittent means emitting harmful humors.
What part of speech is mittent?
Mittent is an adjective.

Words near mittent in the dictionary

  1. mittenless
  2. mittenlike
  3. Mittenpunkt
  4. mittens
  5. mittensful
  6. mittent
  7. Mittenwald
  8. mitter
  9. Mitterrandian
  10. Mitterrandism
  11. mitters

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