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Substantiivi
- (uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
- (loosely, countable) Any treatment or cure.
- (uncountable) The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
- (uncountable) The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
- (mainly historical, uncountable) The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons.
- (uncountable) Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
- Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.
- (obsolete) Black magic, superstition.
- (obsolete) A philter or love potion.
- (obsolete) A physician.
- (slang) Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
Verbi
- (rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine.
Esimerkit
- If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else. I have drunk medicines.
- I have seen a medicine
- That's able to breathe life into a stone
- And we shall find, under the head of the medicining of the body, some things on the subject of medicine in general, which could be better said there than here, because of the wrath of professional dignitaries,- the eye of the 'basilisk,' was not perhaps quite so terrible in that quarter then, as it was in some others.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | medicined |
| Imperfekti | medicined |
| Partisiipin preesens | medicining |
| Monikko | medicines |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | medicines |