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/mˈɛdɪkˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Medicate v. t. (past & past part. medicated; pres. part. medicating)

To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug. "Medicated waters."

To treat with medicine.

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Etymology of 'Medicate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Medicate" Quotes from Famous Books

... and revenge all have children. Every bad thought breeds others, and each of these goes on and on, ever reproducing itself, until our world is peopled with their offspring. The true physician and parent of the future will not medicate the body with drugs so much as the mind with principles. The coming mother will teach her child to assuage the fever of anger, hatred, malice, with the great panacea of the world,—Love. The coming physician will teach the people to cultivate cheerfulness, good-will, and noble deeds ...

— In Tune with the Infinite - or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty • Ralph Waldo Trine

... probed. Meanwhile the loss of blood had so exhausted Sarpi's meager frame that for more than twenty days he had no strength to move or lift his hands. Not a word of impatience escaped his lips; and when Acquapendente began to medicate the worst wound in his face, he moved the dozen doctors to laughter by wittily observing, 'And yet the world maintains that it was given Stilo Romanae Curiae.'[145] His old friend Malipiero would fain have kept the dagger as a relic. But Sarpi suspended it at the foot of a crucifix in ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds