a. Obs. [f. med.L. alexiterium (see ALEXITERY) + -AL.] = ALEXITERIC.

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  A.  adj.

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1607.  Topsell, Serpents (1653), 657. Sufficient store of alexiterial medicines for the expulsing of this grief.

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1712.  trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 24. Several People will have it that this Root is Alexiterial.

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1751.  Chambers, Cycl., Been or behen … its aromatic, cardiac, and alexiterial virtues.

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  B.  sb.

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1673.  Phil. Trans., VIII. 6170. Divers Receipts of Cordials and Alexiterials.

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1753.  in Chambers, Cycl. Supp.

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