oppilative

English

Etymology

Compare French opilatif. See oppilate.

Adjective

oppilative (comparative more oppilative, superlative most oppilative)

1. (obsolete) Obstructive.
   • 1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American His Travail by Sea and Land:

     And if some have found it oppilative, it hath come by the too too much use of it ; as when one drinkes over much wine , instead of comforting and warming himselfe , he breeds and nourisheth cold diseases

Noun

oppilative (plural oppilatives)

1. (obsolete) A medicine that obstructs, or closes the pores.

References

• “oppilative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Adjective

oppilative f

1. feminine plural of oppilativo