Vulnerary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈvʌl.nəɹ.əɹ.i/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Vulnerary is an adjective meaning Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing.
Meaning
Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing.
More Meanings
- A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.
- (archaic, rare) Causing wounds; wounding.
Example Sentences
Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus.
Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that […] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life.
On the ſurface of the water there floats a liquid bitumen, although it be every day ſcummed off, as it doth on the lake Aſphaltites in Judæa: The Inhabitants uſe it as pitch: it is alſo found to be an excellent vulnerary, and good in curing old cacoethic and ſcrophulous ulcers.
Word Forms
- vulneraries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include curative, vulnerant, medicable, healful, medicinable, meliorative.
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