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patent medicine

noun

  1. a medicine sold without a prescription in drugstores or by sales representatives, and usually protected by a trademark.
  2. a medicine distributed by a company having a patent on its manufacture.


patent medicine

noun

  1. a medicine protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of patent medicine1

First recorded in 1760–70
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Example Sentences

He isn't one of these raw hayseeds who hands you chestnuts out of patent medicine almanacs.

It is interesting as showing the patent medicine faker's touching confidence in the power of advertising.

There is not a patent medicine on the market for which any more blatant, extravagant and ridiculous claims are made.

This product is another of the patent-medicine–ethical-proprietary type of nostrums.

Midol is not the only patent medicine in which pyramidon is the essential drug.

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