irritatory
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]irritatory (comparative more irritatory, superlative most irritatory)
- Producing irritation.
- 1659, John Hales, Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales:
- For nothing hinders Wounds from cicatrising; more than concourse of Humor to the diseaſed Part ; and keeping things irritatory about the Orifice of the Wound
References
[edit]“irritatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.