▪ I. medicating, vbl. n.
(ˈmɛdɪkeɪtɪŋ)
[f. medicate v. + -ing1.]
= medication 1 b.
| 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 6 The medicating or steeping of Seeds. |
▪ II. ˈmedicating, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
Healing.
| 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. iii, Leave him to Time, and the medicating virtue of Nature. 1879 Stevenson Trav. Cevennes, Florac, The race of man..has medicating virtues of its own. |