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Sedative :: Sedative (a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.

Dative :: Dative (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1..

Recommendative :: Recommendative (n.) That which recommends; a recommendation.

Retardative :: Retardative (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard..

Dative :: Dative (a.) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office..

Datively :: Datively (adv.) As a gift.

Sedative :: Sedative (a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize.

Gerund :: Gerund (n.) A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, Ic haebbe mete to etanne (I have meat to eat.) In Modern English the name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a stone..

Dative :: Dative (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law..

Sedative :: Sedative (n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain..

Liniment :: Liniment (n.) A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant..

Consolidative :: Consolidative (a.) Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.

Dative :: Dative (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer..

Worth :: Worth (v. i.) To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases..

Instrumental :: Instrumental (a.) Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms..

Game :: Game (n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative..

Foxglove :: Foxglove (n.) Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis..

Antiorgastic :: Antiorgastic (a.) Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.

Dative :: Dative (a.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective..

Quidditative :: Quidditative (a.) Quiddative.

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