† mollificative, a. and n. Obs.
Also 5 molyficatyffe, mollificatif(e, 6 molificative.
[a. F. mollificatif, -ive, ad. med.L. *mollificātīv-us, f. mollificāre to mollify.]
a. adj. That causes mollification or softening. b. n. A medicine or application that softens.
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 47 Þe chapitle of medicyns mollificatyues [v.r. molyficatyffes]. Ibid. 211 Þis is a mollificatif þat rasis made. 1590 P. Barrough Meth. Physick vii. iv. (1596) 388 If you will make a clyster mollificatiue lacking the things aforesayd, doe thus. Ibid., Then make a clyster partly of mollificatiues & partly of expulsiues. 1612 Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 32 This unguent is..of temperament cold..mollificative, and attractive. 1656–74 in Blount Glossogr. 1775 in Ash. |