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repressivus

repressivus [CL repressus p. ppl. of reprimere+-ivus], (med.) that subdues or represses (illness, bodily condition or symptom, physical phenomenon); b (as sb. n.). appetit ergo contraria, ut aquam sue distemperantie ~am Quaest. Salern. B 161; unum eorum ‥ est ~um alterius Gilb. I 60v. 2; [salsa] tumoris ydropici sunt ~a [Trevisa: abeteþ ‥ þe swellyng of dropesye] Bart. Angl. XIX 42 (ed. 1601 XIX 44 p. 1175).  b quia, dum morbus in augmento est ‥ nondum est purgatione utendum, usus sum ~is, oleumque violaceum super cor et hepar, ac fronti ejus apposui P. Blois Ep. 43. 127A.

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