Meanings
adjectiveoppilative (comparative more oppilative, superlative most oppilative)
comparative more oppilative · superlative most oppilative
- obsoleteObstructive.
And if some have found it oppilative, it hath come by the too too much use of it ; as when one drinkes over much wine , instead of comforting and warming himselfe , he breeds and nourisheth cold diseases
1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American His Travail by Sea and Land
nounoppilative (plural oppilatives)
plural oppilatives
- obsoleteA medicine that obstructs, or closes the pores.
Origin
Compare French opilatif. See oppilate.
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