Meaning of glutinative | Babel Free

Definitions

Having the quality of cementing or binding together; agglutinative

obsolete

Examples

“The wounds of the liver, which are caused by violence, and cured, by venesedics, if need, clysters, rhubarb, astringent and glutinative potions , troches of spodium, roses, and rhubarb, myrtine syrup with bole, & using outwardly, aftringent and glutinative plaisters, ointments of bole, mumy and turpentine, and cataplasmes; so in the contusion of the liver, using dissolvers, rhubarb, parmacity, mumy, bole, sealed earth with vineger, with myrrh and other roborants, thin diet, & glutinative, rice, jujube water, and sugar of roses, & c.”

“That is a glutinative medicine, which couples together by drying and binding, the sides of an ulcer before brought together.”

“To form a jelly it is necessary to have among the ingredients some glutinative or mucilaginous substance, such as we find, in a greater or less degree, in the fruits and berries usually "put up" in the jelly form.”

“Usually the preventives are of a cementitious or glutinative character , and if these act to accrete the dust into masses too large to be moved under the forces acting, they succeeed in their object.”

“Both ideal cases, whether the expression of grammatical meanings is extremely glutinative or extremely cumulative, are easy to analyse: grammatical meanings are either expressed by respective segments, or by one segment which is not further analysable.”

“This mixture, the learned Dr. Salmon says, is lenitive, dissolutive, aperative, strengthening, and glutinative.”

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