a. and sb. [ad. mod.L. stomaticus, a. Gr. στοματικός, f. στοματ-, στόμα mouth: see STOMA and -IC. Cf. F. stomatique, It. stomatico, Sp. estomático. (The sb. is in L. stomaticē, a. Gr. στοματική, fem. of the adj.).]
1. a. adj. Of a medicine: Good for diseases of the mouth. b. sb. A ‘stomatic’ medicine. ? Obs.
The explanation in quot. 1656 is app. an error. In the bracketed quots. the word is misused for stomachic; the same blunder has been common in Fr., Sp. and It.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Stomatick … that hath a sore or swelling in the mouth.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., I. vi. 10. Stomatick [medicaments] to the mouth.
[1678. Salmon, Lond. Disp., 588/1. It is designed for a Stomatick to comfort and warm a cold and weak Stomach. Ibid. (1683), Doron Med., II. 174. It is a good Cephalick, ‘Stomatick’ and hysterick. Ibid. (1699), Bate’s Disp. (1713), 242/1. Besides all this, it is an excellent Stomatick, strengthens the Ventricle, causes … a quick Digestion.
1741. Compl. Family-Piece, I. i. 3. Take of the Stomatick-Pill with Gums.]
1857. Dunglison, Med. Lex., s.v., Dentifrices, masticatories, &c., are stomatics.
2. Bot. and Zool. = STOMATAL.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 141. The stomatic apparatus.
1890. Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, XXVI. 172/2. The stomatic cells.
So † Stomatical a. Obs.
In the bracketed quots. the word is misused for stomachical; cf. the similar misuse of STOMATIC.
[1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, ccclviii. 115. Let the pacient purge hym selfe … with pylles stomatical.]
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXIII. vii. II. 170. This was the stomaticall medicine [L. Hæc erat stomatice] of the auncients.
[1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 201. This is a sharp, hungry, stomatical [L. stomachicum], specifical, and humane ferment.]
