terebinthinate, a. and n.
(tɛrɪˈbɪnθɪnət)
[ad. med.L. terebinthināt-us, f. terebinthina turpentine: see -ate1, -ate2.]
A. adj. Impregnated with turpentine; having the nature or quality of turpentine; terebinthine.
| 1680 Boyle Produc. Chem. Princ. iii. 123 The Terebinthinate Oyle. 1702 H. Vaughan in Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1244, I ordered him a Terebinthinate Clyster. 1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 103 Emitting a terebinthinate odour. 1874 Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. (1880) 246 Copaiva acts as a stimulant like other terebinthinate drugs. |
B. n. A terebinthine product; a medicinal preparation of turpentine.
| 17.. Floyer (J.), Salt serum may be evacuated by urine, by terebinthinates; as tops of pine in all our ale. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 248 The balsam of copaiba..is..a terebinthinate of another kind. 1844 Copland Dict. Pract. Med. (1858) II. 130/1 The terebinthinates..are the most efficacious means of arresting the discharge. |
So tereˈbinthinate v. trans., to impregnate with turpentine; hence tereˈbinthinated ppl. a.
| 1651 French Distill. iv. 91 Take Spirit of Wine terebinthinated ten ounces. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 88 The inhalation of an oxygenated and terebinthinated atmosphere. |