Word Meanings - VOMITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• EMETIC
  Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth. -- n.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• MATTER
  1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• STOMACHAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
• STOMACH
  1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Shak. The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. L'Estrange. The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. Milton. 2. To bear
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• STOMACHY
  Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• STOMACHER
  1. One who stomachs.
• STOMACHFUL
  Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
• STOMACHING
  Resentment.
• STOMACHOUS
  Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
• STOMACHIC
  A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
• EMETICAL
  Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic. -- E*met"ic*al*ly, adv.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• ANTEMETIC
  Tending to check vomiting. -- n.
• HIGH-STOMACHED
  Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
• ENCAUSTIC
  Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.