a. and sb. Now rare. [f. L. sternūtāt-, sternūtāre: see prec. and -IVE.] = STERNUTATORY.

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1666.  W. Boghurst, Loimographia (1894), 83. Use sternutatives, if they [patients] doe not sneeze of themselves.

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1786.  Pogonologia, v. 63. This sternutative powder [snuff].

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1859.  Fairholt, Tobacco (1876), 78. Such as used it as a sternutative.

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  Hence Sternutativeness, rare–0.

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1727.  Bailey, vol. II., Sternutativeness, aptness to cause Sneezing.

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