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(obsolete, rare) Relieving the harshness or bitterness of certain bodily humours; (loosely), soothing, emollient..
Epicerastic medicines obtund the acrimony of the humours, and mitigate the uneasy sensation thence arising.
Actually the aged dame (partly, perhaps, that she was quite tired with her own violence) listened to my various epicerastic expressions, showed herself amenable to counsel, and replied in very courteous tones.
Epicerastick […] is a Medicine that assuages and corrects sharp Humours.
In a medicinal point of view it may be considered as an inferior sort of epicerastic.
Use epicerastic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Epicerastic means (obsolete, rare) Relieving the harshness or bitterness of certain bodily humours; (loosely), soothing, emollient..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Epicerastic medicines obtund the acrimony of the humours, and mitigate the uneasy sensation thence arising.
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