a. and sb. [f. STOMACHIC + -AL.] A. adj.
1. = STOMACHIC a. 1.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XX. xvii. II. 66. Dieuches used … to give also the seed beaten to pouder with Mints in wine, for … the defluxion Stomachicall.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., § 285. Whatsoever is taken in a surfet, above the native power of the stomachicall ferment.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No 38. 3/2. You must Chasten your Belly, And forbear the Stomachical Prizes.
1822. L. Sturgeon (title), Essays, Moral, Philosophical, and Stomachical, on the … Science of Good-living.
2. = STOMACHIC a. 3.
1603. F. Hering, Cert. Rules (1625), B 2. Take three or foure cordiall and stomachicall pilles.
1725. Bradley’s Family Dict., s.v. Balm, Balm-mint … is stomachical, cordial, and excites the Appetite and Wind.
† B. sb. = STOMACHIC B. Obs.
1657. Physical Dict., Stomachicals, medicines peculiar to the stomach.
1689. J. Moyle, Abstr. Sea Chyrurg., These are inferiour to no stomachicals in the whole World.
Hence Stomachically adv.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVI. 565. As when they say, A Man swoons stomachically.
1898. Daily News, 12 Jan., 6/6. He seemed to suddenly double up as if stomachically stricken.
