medicament

[ muh-dik-uh-muhnt, med-i-kuh- ]

noun

1. a healing substance; medicine; remedy.

medicament

/ ˈmɛdɪ-; ˌmɛdɪkəˈmɛntəl; mɪˈdɪkəmənt /

noun

1. a medicine or remedy in a specified formulation

Derived Forms

• medicamental, adjective

Other Words From

• med·i·ca·men·tal [med-i-k, uh, -, men, -tl], medi·ca·mentous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of medicament¹

1535–45; < Latin medicāmentum remedy, physic, equivalent to medicā ( rī ) to cure + -mentum -ment. See medicate

Word History and Origins

Origin of medicament¹

C16: via French from Latin medicāmentum, from medicāre to cure

Example Sentences

For in the beginning men took snuff, not as an everyday luxury, but as a medicament.

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The little reproach, added to the wound to his pride, required a healing medicament; she put her lips to his fingers.

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Even though gropingly at times, the physicians of the walled cities had put their fingers upon the specific medicament.

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I remember to have cured a disconsolate widower, who obstinately refused every other medicament, by a strict course of geology.

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For many things are swallowed by Animals, rather for condiment, gust or medicament, then any substantial nutriment.

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