Word Meanings - VOMITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
Related words: (words related to VOMITORY)
- CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - EMETIC
Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth. -- n. - CAUSATIVE
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - CAUSATOR
One who causes. Sir T. Browne. - VOMITORY
Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive. - CAUSTICILY
1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark. - VOMITO
The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit. - CAUSAL
A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat. - CAUSATIVELY
In a causative manner. - CAUSTICALLY
In a caustic manner. - CAUSATIONIST
One who believes in the law of universal causation. - EMETICAL
Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic. -- E*met"ic*al*ly, adv. - CAUSIDICAL
Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits. - CAUSERIE
Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat. - VOMITION
The act or power of vomiting. Grew. - VOMIT
To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew. - CAUSER
One who or that which causes. - CAUSELESS
1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham. - VOMITURITION
An ineffectual attempt to vomit. The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort. Dunglison. - ANTICAUSODIC
See ANTICAUSOTIC - ANTEMETIC
Tending to check vomiting. -- n. - ENCAUSTIC
Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which - UNCAUSED
Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter. - EREMACAUSIS
A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals. - CATACAUSTIC
Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol. - GALVANOCAUSTIC
Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.