sternutatory

[ ster-noo-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, -nyoo- ]

adjective

1. Also ster·nuta·tive. causing or tending to cause sneezing.

noun

, plural ster·nu·ta·to·ries.

1. a sternutatory substance.

sternutatory

/ -trɪ; stɜːˈnjuːtətərɪ /

adjective

1. causing or having the effect of sneezing

noun

1. an agent or substance that causes sneezing

Word History and Origins

Origin of sternutatory¹

1610–20; < Late Latin sternūtātōrius, equivalent to sternūtā ( re ) ( sternutation ) + -tōrius -tory ¹

Example Sentences

If the running ceases, its return must be excited by injecting in the nostrils a spoonful of sternutatory vinegar or smelling salts.

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Its effects as a sternutatory, i. e. as exciting to sneeze, are known to all.

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Pizarro found chewers in Peru, but it was in the country discovered by Cabral that the great sternutatory was originally found.

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Now the first account is suspiciously like a book-story of Oriental hashish-taking.—the second has no implication of smoking at all, while the third describes nothing but the process of taking a sternutatory.

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From his theory of the action of the air through the nose on the contents of the ventricles of the brain is explained his use of sternutatories, and his belief in the efficacy of sneezing.

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