Vulnerary
/ˈvʌl.nɚ.ɛɹ.i/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.
"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."
Adjective
- 1 Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing.
"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."
- 2 Causing wounds; wounding. archaic, rare
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Latin vulnerārius, from vulnus (“wound”).