† mundificative, a. and n. Med. Obs.
Also 5 -atif.
[a. OF. mon-, mundificatif (a. and n.), or ad. med.L. mundificātīv-us, f. mundificāre to mundify: see -ive.]
A. adj. Having power to cleanse (the body, a sore, etc.); detersive.
| a 1400–50 Stockh. Med. MS. 13 Mu[n]dificatif clister. 1509 Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 165 Purging it with playsters mundificatiue. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. xi. 46 We finde that gall is very mundificative, and was a proper medicine to cleere the eyes of Tobit. 1676 Worlidge Cyder (1691) 13 Wines that proceed from the vine being of a corroborative and mundificative nature. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v., Mundificative plaisters, or unguents. |
B. n. A cleansing or detersive medicine.
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 37 We musten clense þe wounde wiþ þis mundificatif. Ibid. 81 On of þe mundificatiuis of ony which þat schal be told in þe antidotarie. 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. ii. 16 After the digestyve, ye must clense the place wyth a mundificatyve of Syrupe of Roses. 1643 J. Steer tr. Exp. Chyrurg. viii. 35 A mundificative of the juice of Smallege doth very much clense putrid Vlcers. 1676 Wiseman Surg. i. vii. 43, I continued the Mundificative and Cerote, and dressed it every other day. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl., Mundificatives, or Mundifyers. |