<B>medicate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-cated,</B> <B>-cating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to treat with medicine. <BR> <I>Ex. to medicate a cold.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to put medicine on or in. <BR> <I>Ex. The doctor medicated the gauze before applying the bandage.</I> </DL>
<B>medication, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>treatment with medicine. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of putting medicine on or in. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=medicament.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="medicative">
<B>medicative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> curative or healing; medicinal. </DL>
<A NAME="medicean">
<B>Medicean, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or like the Medici, a wealthy and powerful Florentine family from the 1400's to the 1600's, famous as rulers of Tuscany and as patrons of many artists, sculptors, and writers. <BR> <I>Ex. He lived a life of ... Medicean splendor (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="medichair">
<B>medichair, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a chair with electronic sensors to monitor the physiological activity of a person. <BR> <I>Ex. Scientists have developed an instrumented chair that gives a person a quick basic medical check-up in one sitting ... This medichair was demonstrated for the first time ... at the opening session of the annual meeting of the Aero-space Medical Association (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="medicide">
<B>medicide, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> physician-assisted suicide. <BR> <I>Ex. But this ninth "medicide" since 1990 offered some new twists: Miller was the first male to die ... outside [Dr.] Kevorkian's former home territory (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="medicinable">
<B>medicinable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) curative; medicinal. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) Some griefs are med'cinable; that is one of them, For it doth physic love (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="medicinal">
<B>medicinal, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> having value as medicine; healing; helping; relieving. <BR> <I>Ex. the medicinal effect of soaking a strained muscle. (Figurative.) Clearing one's conscience is medicinal for the soul.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> something which is or can be used as a medicine. </DL>
<A NAME="medicinalleech">
<B>medicinal leech,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a European leech, about four inches long, formerly used for taking blood from sick people. </DL>
<A NAME="medicinally">
<B>medicinally, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> as medicine. </DL>
<A NAME="medicine">
<B>medicine, </B>noun, verb, <B>-cined,</B> <B>-cining.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>any substance, such as a drug, used to treat, prevent, or cure disease or improve health. <BR> <I>Ex. The sick boy has to take his medicine three times a day. (Figurative.) The miserable have no other medicine but only hope (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the science of treating, preventing, or curing disease; study or practice of maintaining and improving health. <BR> <I>Ex. The young doctor had studied medicine for a number of years.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the field of medicine, especially internal medicine, as distinguished from surgery or obstetrics. <DD><B> 4a. </B>any object or ceremony, such as a spell, charm, or fetish, that certain primitive peoples believe has magic power over disease, evil spirits, or unfavorable circumstances. <DD><B> b. </B>the magic power that primitive peoples believe certain men have over disease, evil spirits, and other things. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) any influence that effects an improvement. <BR> <I>Ex. Another tax cut could well be regarded as just the right medicine (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=medicine man.</B> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Obsolete.) a drug, love potion, or poison. <BR> <I>Ex. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to give medicine to; affect by or as if by medicine. <BR><I>expr. <B>take one's medicine,</B> </I>to do what one must; do something one dislikes to do. <BR> <I>Ex. Canada can do nothing--she must take her medicine and make the best of it (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="medicineball">
<B>medicine ball,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, heavy, stuffed leather ball tossed from one person to another for exercise. </DL>
<A NAME="medicinedance">
<B>medicine dance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ceremonial dance of primitive peoples to cure disease or produce magic. </DL>
<A NAME="medicinelodge">
<B>medicine lodge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lodge used by North American Indians for medicine dances and other rites. </DL>
<A NAME="medicineman">
<B>medicine man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a man supposed by the early North American Indians and certain primitive peoples to have magic power over diseases, evil spirits, and other things; shaman. </DL>
<A NAME="mediciner">
<B>mediciner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a physician. </DL>
<A NAME="medicineshow">
<B>medicine show,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a traveling show at which patent medicines, remedies, and cure-alls were formerly advertised and sold. <BR> <I>Ex. The days of the medicine show are over (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="medico">
<B>medico, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a doctor; physician. <BR> <I>Ex. The medico held my chin in the usual way, and examined my throat (Alexander W. Kinglake).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a medical student. </DL>
<A NAME="medico">
<B>medico-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) medical and ______, as in <I>medicolegal.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="medicochirurgical">
<B>medicochirurgical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with both medicine and surgery. </DL>
<A NAME="medicolegal">
<B>medicolegal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with forensic medicine; medical and legal. <BR> <I>Ex. ... medicolegal problems such as the determination of disputed paternity, based on the inheritance of the various blood groups and types (Lawrence H. Snyder).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="medieval">
<B>medieval, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>belonging to or having to do with the Middle Ages (the years from about 500 to about 1450 A.D.). <BR> <I>Ex. The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter ... is the largest medieval cathedral in England (Newsweek).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) med. <DD><B> 2. </B>like that of the Middle Ages. Also, <B>mediaeval.</B> adv. <B>medievally.</B> </DL>
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<A NAME="medievalgreek">
<B>Medieval Greek,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Greek language during the Middle Ages, from about 700 A.D. to about 1500 A.D.; Middle Greek. </DL>
<A NAME="medievalism">
<B>medievalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the spirit, ideals, and customs of the Middle Ages; medieval thought, religion, and art. <DD><B> 2. </B>devotion to medieval ideals; adoption of medieval customs. <DD><B> 3. </B>a medieval belief, custom, or idea. Also, <B>mediaevalism.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="medievalist">
<B>medievalist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an expert on the Middle Ages. <BR> <I>Ex. a Cambridge University medievalist (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who is in sympathy with medieval ideals or customs. Also, <B>mediaevalist.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="medievallatin">
<B>Medieval Latin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Latin language during the Middle Ages, from about 700 A.D. to about 1500 A.D.; Middle Latin. </DL>
<A NAME="medigap">
<B>medigap, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a policy of supplemental health insurance that provides coverage of some or all medical, hospital, and other costs of health care not provided by Medicare and Medicaid. <BR> <I>Ex. Revised medigap policies were required this year ... About 22 million of 33 million Medicare beneficiaries have supplemental insurance (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="medina">
<B>medina, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the native Arab quarter of a city in North Africa. <BR> <I>Ex. the medina of Marrakech, the Casablanca medina.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mediocre">
<B>mediocre, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of average quality: neither bad nor good; ordinary. <BR> <I>Ex. a mediocre book, a mediocre student, a mediocre performance, a person of mediocre abilities.</I> (SYN) medium, commonplace, indifferent. </DL>
<A NAME="mediocrity">
<B>mediocrity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>quality that is neithergood nor bad; mediocre quality. <BR> <I>Ex. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a mediocre ability or accomplishment. <DD><B> 3. </B>a mediocre person. </DL>
<B>meditate, </B>verb, <B>-tated,</B> <B>-tating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to think quietly; engage in deep and serious thought; reflect. <BR> <I>Ex. In some orders monks and nuns meditate on holy things for hours at a time. He quitted her presence to meditate upon revenge (Frederick Marryat).</I> (SYN) ponder, muse, cogitate. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to think about; consider; plan; intend. <BR> <I>Ex. They are meditating a reimposition of the tax on corn (Manchester Examiner). All men that meditate peace, be allowed safe conduct (Thomas Hobbes).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to observe intently. <BR> <I>Ex. The ready spaniel ... meditates the prey (Alexander Pope).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="meditation">
<B>meditation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>quiet thought; reflection. <DD><B> 2. </B>contemplation on sacred or solemn subjects, especially as a devotional exercise. <DD><B> 3. </B>a contemplative or devotional writing or talk. </DL>
<A NAME="meditative">
<B>meditative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>fond of meditating; inclined to meditate; thoughtful. <BR> <I>Ex. I'm just not the meditative type (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>expressing meditation. <BR> <I>Ex. a meditative manner, a meditative essay.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>engaged or lost in meditation. <BR> <I>Ex. He was gazing, rapt and meditative, at the hallway to the kitchen (Elizabeth Cullinan).</I> adv. <B>meditatively.</B> noun <B>meditativeness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="meditator">
<B>meditator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who meditates. </DL>
